Career

He is best known for his funeral monument to Pope Martin V, in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, in Rome. Together with Antonio Filarete, Simone also made a set of bronze doors for Saint Peter"s Basilica in Rome. Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects erroneously stated that Simone was the brother of Donatello.

Simone Ghini died in 1491.