bronze doors
Heavy alloy portals
Bronze doors are large, heavy doors cast from bronze, typically found at the entrances of churches, government buildings, banks, and other grand structures.
The material suggests permanence and importance—bronze weathers to a distinctive patina and can bear elaborate relief sculptures or decorative panels.
The cathedral's bronze doors depicted scenes from the Bible.
- patinaSurface film from aging
- lost waxCasting via melted model
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- grand openingCelebratory business debut
- hingeMovable connecting joint
entryway · Pantheon · St. Peter's · baptistery · casting · knocker · verdigris · gilding · Charlemagne · old world · relief · sculpted · weight · facade · Florence · tympanum · public monument · handle
- bronzespatination, lost wax
- Renaissance ArchitectureBrunelleschi, Michelangelo, dome, cupola, loggia
- Ottonian Artilluminated manuscripts, ivory carvings, enamelwork, reliquaries, book covers
- architectural metalworksteel beams, wrought iron, structural steel, metal frames, handrails
- bank architecturebank vaults, marble floors, grand halls, vaults, lobbies
- cathedralsnave, apse, transept, spire, altar
bronze doorswooden doors
Entrances made from lumber
glass doors · paper screens · steel doors · beaded curtains · screen doors
bronze doorsscreen door
Mesh-paneled exterior entry
pet door · doggy door · saloon doors · beaded curtain · shower curtain