# North Doors: Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIBERTI, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Gilded bronze ## Commentary The panels on the North Doors are divided by latticework enriched by varied floral ornament and by individual medallion heads. As in Andrea Pisano’s portal, the figures, architecture and landscape details are gilded and gleam against the dark background. Ghiberti signed his work OPUS LAURENTII FLORENTINI above the scenes of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi; the head above-left of the signature may be presumed to be a self-portrait, that above-right to be his son, Vittorio Ghiberti I. ## 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]()