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...double insurance.Master Foundry-man Bruno Bearzi was commissioned to make plaster impressions and cast bronze replicas. Since Bearzi used the waste-mold process, in which the plaster is broken off, only one set of duplicates was made. In 1948 the scrubbed originals were rehinged at the famed San Giovanni Baptistery. Five years ago. San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal' Grace Cathedral, under construction in traditional Gothic style, commissioned the completion of the duplicate doors Now the replicated Ghibertis have a godly home...
...opened last week on their first services in the newly consecrated cathe dral. In some ways, the doors are closer 3 mint condition than the originals in Florence. After centuries, much of Ghiberti's detail was too weathered and worn to emerge clearly. So, after gilding the bronze, Bearzi's foundry chased the Renaissance precision touch back on. One craftsman spent six weeks detailing a postcard-size section, bringing out each and every feather on a bird no bigger than one-sixth of a postage stamp. What took Ghiberti 27 years to conceive and execute took eight...
Justice came in the form of a caustic-soda bath. After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...
...years ago, a bronze smelter named Bruno Bearzi set out to prove that there was. Instead of scraping the doors, as others had tried, he mixed a special solvent to wash away the dirt and corrosion of centuries. Last week, while the Baptistery choir sang and long trumpets blared, the curtains over the doors fell away. At the sight, women fell to their knees; men wept. After all the years, Ghiberti's doors glistened and gleamed once more as he had made them...
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