A comparison of these two reliefs proves that Ghiberti, at any rate, had a finer sense of grouping.

He filled the space at his disposal more easily and his hand was more fluent; but there is a very engaging vivacity in the other work, the realistic details of which are so arresting as to make one regret that Brunelleschi had for sculpture so little time.

In S.Maria Novella is that crucifix in wood which he carved for his friend Donatello, but his only other sculptured work in Florence is the door of his beautiful Pazzi chapel in the cloisters of S.Croce.

Of Ghiberti's Baptistery gates I have said more elsewhere.

Enough here to add that the episode of Abraham and Isaac does not occur in them.
This little room also has a Cassa Reliquiaria by Ghiberti, below a fine relief by Bertoldo, Michelangelo's master in sculpture, representing a battle between the Romans and the Barbarians; cases of exquisite bronzes; the head, in bronze (No.