Lorenzo Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise" (1452) on the Florence Baptistery revolutionized Renaissance art. These 17-foot-tall gilded bronze doors feature deep-relief panels of Old Testament scenes and utilized advanced linear perspective and intricate layering. This created a three-dimensional, painterly effect in bronze where foreground figures are cast in high relief, almost fully detached, while background architecture is in shallow, delicate relief.   Inspired by this sculp

The foundry is abuzz with Monument of the Americas panels and sculpture. Here we see them in various stages of production: assembly, rough casting and finished patina. The pieces in order of appearance:  Irreantum  by Michael Hall;  Alma Repents  and  Farewell to Arms  by Steven Neal;  We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident - Thomas Jefferson  by Hall and  Lehi's Dream of the Tree of Life  by Neal.

“It has been very exciting and important to me to create the life size version of the Hands of Man . Dr. Steven Neal asked me to create this piece seventeen years ago to complement his magnificent Christus sculpture, Other Sheep I Have, and I will be forever indebted to him. This is my opportunity to add my testimony to his that one day, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ," Michael A. Hall, artist.   The Hands of Man - Old World  completed