Bronze Door
Actually made of orichalcum (a mix of copper, zinc and lead), and made up of 54 panels depicting Stories from the Old and New Testament. It was commissioned by Archdeacon Ildebrando di Soana, future Pope Gregory VII (1073-85) and imported from Constantinople. The double doors once were the central door of the medieval basilica. After damage caused by the fire of 1823, it was remounted between 1965 and 1966 on the right as the interior of the Porta Sancta.
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