Florentine sculptor, gold-worker, stained-glass designer, architect, and writer. A central figure in the transition from the gothic to the renaissance style. Ghiberti sculpted Christian martyrs for various churches. His most well known piece is the bronze doors of the Baptistery near the Florence cathedral. Ghiberti's studio trained young artists, among them Dontello, Massolini, Uccello, Miccalozo, and Benozo Gottili.