# Panel No. 6: Stories of Joseph [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIBERTI, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm ## Commentary Panel No. 6: Stories of Joseph 1425-52 Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm Baptistery, Florence Each panel of the Gates of Paradise depicts several episodes of a biblical narrative. In the Stories of Joseph a huge crowd takes part in the main action before the circular building which forms the background, yet despite the number of actors the scene combines coherence and unity with delicate, sinous charm, but the new interest in a perspective setting imparts a new logic and new order. The panel is showing clearly the brilliant modelling technique and perfect perspective, so that the figures stand out against the architectural background and the work seems almost a painting in bronze. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 5 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/mehul\_joseph.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Étienne Nicolas Méhul: Joseph, aria</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## 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]()