About Baptistery of Saint John

This 11th-century Romanesque baptistery is part of the cathedral complex that includes the Florence Duomo and Giotto’s Campanile, and is where Dante was baptized. The octagonal Baptistery of St. John is renowned for its bronze doors with relief sculptures: the south doors are the work of Andrea Pisano while the north and east were done by Lorenzo Ghiberti, the east of which was dubbed “the Gates of Paradise” by Michelangelo.