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‘At the time that he was executing his first set of bronze doors, Ghiberti undertook to cast the first life-sized bronze statue since antiquity, his “St John the Baptist” (1412-16[ce]) for Or San Michele.* Although the figure and its draperies reveal Ghiberti’s strong adherence to late Gothic style, with this work he moved technically into the Renaissance.’

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** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:]95

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