Lorenzo Ghiberti (] ; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a 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".
 Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.
 His book of "Commentari" contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist.
Giovanni dal Ponte (1385 – ca. 1438, Florence) was a Florentine minor master painter of the late-Gothic period, known as one of the greatest minor masters contemporary to Masaccio.
 He is known by Giorgio Vasari as dal Ponte, a name derived from the location of his studio at the Piazza di Santo Stefano a Ponte.
 Many other documents cite his name as Giovanni di Marco.
 After joining the Arte dei Medici e degli Speziali in 1410 and the Compagnia di S Luca in 1413, dal Ponte opened his studio in the late 1420s and hired Florentine painter Smeraldo di Giovanni as his assistant.
 Smeraldo was hired after dal Ponte was imprisoned in 1424 due to failure to repay his debts, with the intention that Smeraldo would manage the logistical aspects of the workshop in addition to his artwork.
 Dal Ponte used his craftsmanship to create not only Panel paintings, but also frescoes and decorations for small objects.
 Dal Ponte's work is considered to be of the Late Gothic style, though he assimilated the stylistic preferences of his contemporaries; Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, and Lorenzo Ghiberti served as his primary influences.
The Florence Baptistery (Italian: "Battistero di San Giovanni" ), also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building in Florence, Italy, and has the status of a minor basilica.
 The octagonal baptistery stands in both the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza San Giovanni, across from Florence Cathedral and the Campanile di Giotto.
Bernardo Cennini (] ; 1414/5 – c. 1498) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor and early printer of Florence.
 As a sculptor he was among the assistants to Lorenzo Ghiberti in the long project producing the second pair of doors—the "Doors of Paradise"—for the Battistero di San Giovanni.
 He produced the first book printed at Florence.
 The painter and author of a famous book on the crafts, Cennino D'Andrea Cennini, was a member of the same Florentine family.
Ansano di Andrea di Bartolo (1421–1491) was an Italian painter active in Siena.
 After a brief spell in the late 1430s in Castiglione Olona (near Milan), as an assistant in Masolino’s workshop, he returned to Siena, where in the 1440s he quickly established him- self as one of the most progressive artists in the city.
 This was a time when the Renaissance avant-garde of Sienese painters, headed by Domenico di Bartolo and Lorenzo Vecchietta, were eagerly assimilating the innovations of the leading Florentine artists of the early Renaissance.
 Following in the footsteps of the leading Florentine painters and sculptors – Masaccio, Masolino, Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Donatello – they reformed the traditional formulas of Sienese painting without breaking with their own well-established traditions.
 These artists permeated their old Sienese formulas and inventions with a Renaissance spirit and produced pictures of major physical substance, consequently scenes of higher empathy, and, in the case of the splendid frescoes of the Pellegrinaio of the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, episodes embedded in fantastic architectural settings, constructed as eccentric expressions of the newly acquired rules of perspective within an artistic vocabulary of no lesser eccentricity inspired by the classical world.
Ghiberti is a crater on Mercury.
 It has a diameter of 123 kilometers.
 Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.
 Ghiberti is named for the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who lived from 1378 to 1455.
The Tabernacle of the Linaioli (Italian: "Tabernacolo dei Linaioli", literally "Tabernacle of the Linen manufacturers") is a marble aedicula designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti, with paintings by Fra Angelico, dating to 1432-1433.
 It is housed in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence, central Italy.
Parri Spinelli (ca. 1387–1453) was an Italian (Tuscan) painter of the early renaissance who was born in the Province of Arezzo.
 His father and teacher was Spinello Aretino (1350–1410), who was active throughout Tuscany.
 Parri Spinelli lived in Florence from 1411 or 1412 to 1419, and was a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti.
 He became the most important painter in Arezzo upon his return.
 Spinelli died in 1453 in Arezzo Province.
 His paintings are notable for their bold colors and figures that are more elongated than those of his predecessors.
St. John the Baptist (1412–1416) is a bronze statue by Lorenzo Ghiberti located in one of the 14 niches of the Orsanmichele in Florence, Italy.
 The statue of the Saint was commissioned by the cloth merchant's guild, the "Arte di Calimala".
 The artist's use of the unnaturalistic but elegant curves in the hair and drapery of the saint show the influence of the International Gothic style prevalent in Italy at the time the work was created.
 The work was successfully cast in a single piece, making it the first bronze statue of its size to be cast in a single piece for at least several hundred years in Italy.
After years of considering options, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti were made joint leaders of the project to build the dome for Florence Cathedral in 1420.
 Brunelleschi's plan to use suspended scaffolding for the workers won out over alternatives such as building a provisional stone support column in the center of the crossing or filling the space with earth.
 The octagonal brick domical vault was built between 1420 and 1436, with Ghiberti resigning in 1433.
 The lantern surmounting the dome, also designed by Brunelleschi, was not begun until 1446, after his death.
 It was completed in 1467.
 He had also planned for a two-story external gallery and cornice to be built at the top of the drum where a strip of unclad masonry can be seen today.
 Although a portion of it was constructed on the southeast side beginning in 1508, work stopped after the visual effect was criticized by Michelangelo.

Question:  Lorenzo Ghiberti was an italian artist known as the creator of the bronze doors of a religious building that has the status of what?
Answer: a minor basilica