# North doors panels: 17. Ascent to Calvary [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIBERTI, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Gilded bronze ## Commentary North doors panels: 17. Ascent to Calvary 1403-24 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence The theme for Ghiberti's north doors of the Baptistery is the life of Christ in 20 scenes with the 8 lower panels containing the Evangelists and Fathers of the Church. As these doors were kept shut, except on feast days, the scenes read from the bottom accross both wings. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/g/ghiberti/north\_do/schema\_n.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=550'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">arrangement of the panels</a> on the north doors of the Baptistery. The picture shows the Ascent to Calvary, one of the 20 scenes from the life of Christ. In this relief the frame has ceased to serve as a proscenium arch, and has receded to a middle plane, so that the action takes place in front of it. To this expedient of projecting the main focus of the narrative outwards towards the spectator much of the impact of this beautiful relief is due. ## Related artworks - [Ascension]() - [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Christ on the Mount of Olives]() - [Door of a Ciborium \(detail\)]() - [Door of a Ciborium]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Five studies]() - [North Doors \(Life of Christ\)]() - [North Doors \(Life of Christ\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()