House and Garden 
celebrated fifteenth cen¬ 
tury architects, Brun¬ 
elleschi, Michael Angelo, 
Alberti and San Gallo, on 
the right, and Lescot, 
Peruzzi, Bramante and 
Sansovino on the left. 
I he heads are in low re¬ 
lief and are framed in 
elaborate mouldings. The 
entire inner series of pan¬ 
els and four panels of each 
of the outer rows are oc¬ 
cupied by shields in- 
cribed with the Harvard 
initial, £C H.” 
The gates are of a nat¬ 
ural bronze color. They 
weigh more than four 
thousand pounds, and, 
taken together, are eight 
feet wide and sixteen feet 
high. Each gate is di¬ 
vided into upper and 
lower halves, on separate 
hinges, so that the lower 
half of each can be swung 
open as an ordinary door, 
leaving the upper half 
closed; or the entire gate¬ 
way can be opened by 
swinging back the four 
sections. 
Extraordinary pains 
was taken in preparing the 
mould and casting the 
gates. Instead of using 
directly the plaster cast 
made from the sculptor’s 
clay model, a preliminary 
bronze casting was taken 
and toned up to the exact 
qualities of the clay model, 
and this first bronze cast¬ 
ing was then used as the 
model for the mould of 
the final casting. By this 
means the gates, in their 
ultimate form, came from 
the mould as smooth as 
wax and remained free 
from the touch of the 
finisher’s tool. 
L.R.E.P. 
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