Room for both.

One scene represents the meeting of S.Joachim and S.Anna outside a mediaeval city's walls, and it has some pretty Giottesque touches, such as the man carrying doves to the Temple and the angel uniting the two saints in friendliness; and the other is the Birth of the Virgin, which Ruskin was so pleased to pit against Ghirlandaio's treatment of the same incident.

Well, it is given to some of us to see only what we want to see and be blind to the rest; and Ruskin was of these the very king.

I agree with him that Ghirlandaio in both his Nativity frescoes thought little of the exhaustion of the mothers; but it is arguable that two such accouchements might with propriety be treated as abnormal--as indeed every painter has treated the birth of Christ, where the Virgin, fully dressed, is receiving the Magi a few moments after.

Ruskin, after making his deadly comparisons, concludes thus genially of the Giotto version--"If you can be pleased with this, you can see Florence.