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Lorenzo Ghiberti was born on April 3rd, 1378 into a well-respected Gold Smith family. His father, Bartolucci Ghiberti, was a very well respected Goldsmith with Fiore Ghiberti as his wife.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti was admitted into the Silk and Gold Guild and starts to know what working at a job is like and how to get paid for a living.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti passes his Silk and Gold Guild Examination and becomes a master of the SIlk and Gold Guild.
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In 1400, the Black Death reached Florence. Because of this, Lorenzo Ghiberti was forced to leave Florence to not catch the Black Death.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti returned to Florence in 1401 as the Black Death was vanquished from the city state. He immediately entered a competition in 1401 to build a pair of bronze doors (a portal) and competed against Filippo Brunelleschi and Jacopo della Quercia.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti wins the competition and begins working on the bronze portal, in which he nicknames the “North Portal”
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Lorenzo Ghiberti began creating more works of breathtaking and astonishing works of art.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti completes a great, breathtaking bronze statue of Saint John the Baptist
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Lorenzo Ghiberti commissioned to build a pair of Bronze Doors for a church named the Baptistry.
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The Bronze Doors are completed and are nicknamed by Michelangelo “The Gates of Paradise”
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Lorenzo Ghiberti died on December 1st, 1455 due to a fever he had, and had no medicine.