The Baptistery of Battistero di San Giovanni is situated before Firenze's (Florence's) Cathedral or Duomo, the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. The building has a Romanesque octagonal structure with three sets of double bronze doors. Pisano was awarded with the first set of doors in 1330 and they were finnished in 1336. Initially the Pisano doors were situated on the east side of the baptistery but in 1452, the doors were moved to their present area on the south side. In 1401 the cloth guild of Florence decided to commission a second set of doors for the baptistery of Florence. They held a competition for the second set of doors in effort to find the best sculptor. In total there was seven entries but only two survived in the end, Filippo
