Over-the-top Doors
Over-the-top DoorsAuthor: Ryan FrankDoors are easy to overlook in your average American home today. They’re mostly there to serve a practical purpose and not much else. The following doors are examples of the exact opposite.
In some of these cases, the doors themselves have become their own attractions, separate from the building they form a part of. The Florence Baptistry DoorsIn 1401, the Wool Merchant’s Guild of Florence announced a competition to see who could come up with the best panels for the Florence Baptistry’s north doors. The winner of the competition and the one who received the commission to work on the doors was a young sculptor named Lorenzo Ghiberti, who had to beat, among other competitors, none other than Filippo Brunelleschi. It took Ghiberti 21 years to complete the doors, which are made of gilded bronze with panels depicting scenes from the New Testament. The Columbus DoorsThe Columbus Doors in the U.S. Capitol Building’s Rotund draw a lot of inspiration from Ghiberti’s Baptistry Doors. Designed by Randolph Roger and installed in 1863, the doors are 17 feet tall, made of gilded bronze and weigh 20,000 pounds. The decorative panels depict the journey of Christopher Columbus.Hohenstein CastleThe design of Germany’s Hohenstein Castle is a prime example of medieval architecture.
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