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Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455), artist
Person · 1378–1 Dec 1455
Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ghiberti
Penrose, Francis Cranmer (1817-1903), architect
Person · 29 Oct 1817–15 Feb 1903
English architect, archaeologist and astronomer. He was Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Director of the British School at Athens.
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35467
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), art critic
Person · 8 Feb 1819–20 Jan 1900
Leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24291