Ghiberti, Lorenzo. Italian designer, sculptor, architect and writer was Florentine
and first came to prominence as winner of the 1401 competition for a set of bronze doors to the Florence Baptistry
The original brief seems to have been for a set of 28 old testament scenes; The programme was subsequently changed to a series of
New Testament scenes, plus saints, but the format of 28 quatrefoils (foils) was retained.