His thoroughness recalls Giotto in certain of his frescoes.

The impression left by Pisano's doors is akin to that left by reading the New Testament; but Ghiberti makes everything happier than that.

Two scenes--both on the level of the eye--I particularly like: the "Annunciation," with its little, lithe, reluctant Virgin, and the "Adoration".

The border of the Pisano doors is, I think, finer than that of Ghiberti's; but it is a later work.
Looking at them even now, with eyes that remember so much of the best art that followed them and took inspiration from them, we can understand the better how delighted Florence must have been with this new picture gallery and how the doors were besieged by sightseers.

But greater still was to come.