Michelangelo, a renowned Renaissance painter and sculptor, called the gates “The Gates of Paradise,” a golden door leading to heaven. The name stuck, but more so because of the importance of the location of the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy, where in the Middle Ages converts came annually to the parade dedicated to Saint John the Baptist to be anointed. and gain paradise; hence the “paradise” in The Gates of Paradise (“Baptistry of San Giovanni”). But before naming the work of art, it must have been built. Commissioned from goldsmith Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1425 by the Arte di Calimala, a guild of wool merchants from Florence, the gilded bronze doors took twenty-seven years to construct and were finally installed in the baptistery in 1452. As shown in Figure 1, the doors contain ten square panels depicting the following scenes from the Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's drunkenness, Abraham and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph sold into slavery , Moses and the Ten Commandments, The Fall of Jericho. , David and Goliath, and Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (“Baptistery of San Giovanni”). In addition, a frieze composed of flowers and small statues of prophets, sibyls (seers) and busts surround the ten panels as additional decoration. Built during a flourishing era of art and culture known as the Renaissance, this early Renaissance piece exhibits various characteristics of the artistic style of that period in terms of subject matter, appearance, depiction, and even more aspects artistic. However, before describing the Renaissance and its characteristics in more detail, it should be noted that Italy was the center of the new Renaissance movement and later the victory of the Florentines against the......mid paper..... . example of Renaissance art. The strong demonstration of classical antiquity, humanism and realism, throughout The Gates of Heaven, often through the use of detail, design and composition, further reinforces the ideality of the gates as Renaissance work of art. However, it was Lorenzo Ghiberti, the artist and creator of the Gates of Paradise, who gave the gates these characteristics and therefore their meaning. In this sense, we can say that an artist defines his work and therefore, the work contains a part of the artist. Further, as future generations analyze and view this work of art, the artist's name is thus preserved for decades, even centuries – the artist's name transcends time. With this in mind, is it not possible that humanity can achieve immortality through art? After all, art can last for centuries while the body cannot..