North doors panels: 1. Annunciation
by GHIBERTI, Lorenzo, Gilded bronze
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 arrangement of the panels on the north doors of the Baptistery.
The picture shows the Annunciation, the first scene of the cycle at bottom left on the left door.