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The supervisory board of the building of the Baptistery in Florence (Battistero) decided in 1322 to order the three ornamental shutters. The modell of the bronze gate was that of Bonnanus of the Dome of Pisa, the Royal Gate (Porta Reale) cast in 1178-79. Piero di Jacopo was sent to Pisa to draw the gate, at the same time Andrea Pisano was invited from Pisa. In 1330 he already worked in Florence on the first gate. The Venetian Leonardo d'Avanzo poured the framework of the gate into bronze in 1332, and in this lattice were placed Andrea Pisano's reliefs. The two wings of the gate were finished in 1336. The top five rows of the gate represent the scenes of the life of Saint John the Baptist, and the lower four rows figures of virtues. The direct modells of the latter were the virtues painted by Giotto in the Chapel of Arena in Padua.