For the church of Orsanmichele, the bankers' and moneychangers' guild commissioned Ghiberti's towering bronze St.

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Though the Opera del Duomo chose Brunelleschi's model, it appointed a four-man team to oversee construction, a team that included Ghiberti.

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Brunelleschi soon made a miraculous recovery, bolting up to the construction site, where he proclaimed Ghiberti's work incompetent and demanded that it be torn down.

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