After that what is an ordinary person to say?
That they are lovely is a commonplace.

But they are more.

They are so sensitive; bronze, the medium which Horace has called, by implication, the most durable of all, has become in Ghiberti's hands almost as soft as wax and tender as flesh.

It does all he asks; it almost moves; every trace of sternness has vanished from it.

Nothing in plastic art that we have ever seen or shall see is more easy and ingratiating than these almost living pictures.
Before them there is steadily a little knot of admirers, and on Sundays you may always see country people explaining the panels to each other.