Gates of Paradise HFF! (with Pip)

The Golden gate HFF

The original, which is kept in a museum, is indeed gold-plated. This is a replica, of course, but still very beautifully made.
Have a nice weekend, Fred, and thank you for your comment!

"les portes du paradis"sont bien rendues et bien mises en évidence..!
HFF.et bon weekend.

Merci, Malik. The only difficult part in this shot is catching the Portes du Paradis without a throng of souls crowding up in front of them ;)

Bon weekend a toi!

Wonderful details.
HFF

Thank you, Jaap.
Have a great weekend!

A wonderful scene Annalia and a great fence too. Well done.

HFF, enjoy the weekend.

Thank you, Herb. That's very kind of you.

Wishing you a nice weekend too. I understand there should be a bit of lifting of restrictions over the weekend in the UK?

A shot i took 1982
www.ipernity.com/doc/1073393/46909856//in/album/1068652
Nice to see a new shot, HFF

Hi, Steve. what you took a shot of in 1982 is actually the original door made by Ghiberti and his son in the 1400s. That was removed to be restored in the 90's and is now kept at the Opera del Duomo Museum (or rather the sigle gilt bronze plates that made up the door are kept there, in glass cases under protective atmosphere). The current door is a replica, made from a cast that was taken shortly after WWII and galvanically gold plated. I liked seeing your "historical" photo. Thank you for pointing me to it! It also has particular documentary value in that now one can either take pictures of the replica door or admire the original plates in the museum, but the whole original door now exists only in pictures like yours.
Have a great weekend!

I can see why there are usually admiring crowds! Beautiful images too. HFF and have a great weekend.

Thank you, George. Yes, of the four doors, this is by far the most popular. The outside structure of the Baptistry has been restored recently ( a clean up project that took years) and I must say the ensemble now makes for a very striking sight.

Have a great weekend!

Superbe et merveilleuse
Merci pour le partage, Annalia

Thank you, Judite.
Hope you had a good Sunday!

Well known gate - and it's really wonderful. We admired it when we visited Florence in 1996 and 2015. HFF,wish you a nice weekend, Annalia !

Thank you, Percy. When we get through this pandemic you should visit again. They just got through cleaning up the outer structure of the Baptistry and it is breathtaking!
Hope you had a nice Sunday.

HFF Annalia, and thanks for the splendid door. How exciting for you to not have the tourists in the way!
Hope your weekend is enjoyable and interesting

Thank you, Diana. It was indeed a chance I would have hated to miss ...
Hope you had a good Sunday!

un cancello stupendo! ti auguro un bel fine settimana solare!

Grazie, Gabi. Lo so che così si vince facile ... Uno dei vantaggi di vivere in una città d'arte ;)
Spero che tu abbia passato un buon week end!

Wow, amazing!
HFF and have a nice weekend, Annalia!
Kind regards, Karin

Thank you, Karin.
Hope you had a nice weekend!

Have a good weekend

Thanks, Trudy. I hope yours was nice too.

Das Portal ist atemberaubend. HFF, Annalia.

Thank you, Falk. It's easy to take interesting pictures when one lives in a beautiful city!
Hope you had a nice weekend.

Such fantastic work, Florence is so amazing, I was lucky to visit it in the late seventies when it wasn't as busy as I hear it is now.

Thank you, Sarah. Yes, it's a beautiful city. And right now it's not even particularly noisy or full of traffic or overrun with tourists. I find myself enjoying it as if I was again a newcomer ...
Hope you had a great weekend!

Golden doors to all luxury. Warm greetings, Anton.

Thank you, Anton. You might not believe it, but as long as I have lived here, I have never actually been inside, so ... I don't know what's behind these doors :D
Hope you had a nice Sunday!

Wunderschöne Details!
Einen verspäteten HFF, Annalia, und ein wunderbares Wochenende!

Thank you, Trester.
Hope you had a fun weekend!

Amazing and beautiful doors very well captured in both images Annalia,
Belated HFF for my fence image of the week!
Have a nice evening and a lovely Sunday

Thank you for your awfully kind comment, Roger!
hope you had a great Sunday!

EXCELLENT!*************

Thank you, Nouchetdu. That is very kind!

Hello Annalia, many thanks for these interesting informations about this famous „Paradise Gate“. The first time I saw it was in 1983, it looks exactly like Udo’s photo shows it. The next time in the year 1990 the gate looks like it looks today. Since 1990 I visited Florence many times, and every time I was convinced that I saw the original Gate. Thank you for making me smarter …
My great compliment for the perfect shot!!!

Thank you, Uli. I am glad the info was useful. I think the original idea, when they removed the door in 1990, was to have it restored and that the replica would be a temporary stand-in. However, during restoration, they found that just being out in the open had caused much damage that it needed to be kept under protective atmosphere. I also found out afterwards that I gave Steve outdated info, since 8 years ago, 27 years since conservation work had started, the reassembled door was put on display inside the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. It is encased in a glass container but can be viewed in its entirety. If you are interested in more info on the restoration, it can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AbLI4QBAU

Although it concerns the other, older door by Ghiberti on the north side, I also found this video of the casting of the North door replica fascinating. This replica was done much more recently than that of the Paradise Gate, so we can get a glimpse of the painstaking process that goes also into making the replicas as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflmtV6pRvo