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You can also see the two bronze panels submitted for the Baptistery doors competition in 1401 by Brunelleschi, the loser, and Ghiberti, the winner (see page 77).
A century later, Lorenzo Ghiberti won the competition to design the great north and east doors, devoted respectively to the life of Jesus and scenes from the Old Testament.
Look for Ghiberti’s vigorous bronze of the city’s patron St. John (east wall, on the Via de’ Calzaiuoli); St. Matthew, the bankers’ tax-collector turned Apostle (west); Donatello’s St. George, the armorers’ dragon-killer (north, a bronze cast of a marble original in the Bargello); St. Mark, whose vividly sculpted robes do credit to the linen-drapers he protects (south); and Nanni di Banco’s outstanding conspiratorial group of Four Crowned Martyrs for the sculptors’ own guild of stonemasons and wood-workers (north).
A building boom underlined the prosperity: Giotto’s Campanile was at last completed, as were Ghiberti’s great baptistery doors, and Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral.
Galileo, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, and composer Rossini are all buried there.