It may be worth while to notice here a similar series of reliefs upon the facade of the Colleoni Chapel at Bergamo, representing scenes from the story of Adam in conjunction with the labours of Hercules.
[83] Ruskin's _Modern Painters_, vol.ii.chap, vii., Repose.
[84] See Flaxman's _Lectures on Sculpture_, p.

310.
[85] This criticism of the "Gate of Paradise" sounds even to the writer of it profane, and demands a palinode.

Who, indeed, can affirm that he would wish the floating figure of Eve, or the three angels at Abraham's tent-door, other than they are?
[86] See the _Commentaries of Ghiberti_, printed in vol.i.of Vasari (Lemonnier, 1846).
[87] The patera is at South Kensington, the frieze at Florence.
[88] As also the wooden Baptist in the Frari at Venice.
[89] There is another "David," by Donatello, in marble; also in the Bargello, scarcely less stiff and ugly than the "Baptist." [90] The cast was published by the Arundel Society.

The original belongs to Lord Elcho.
[91] It has been suggested, with good show of reason, that Mantegna was largely indebted to these bas-reliefs for his lofty style.
[92] This omits the statues of the Scaligers: but no mediaeval work aimed at equal animation.

The antique bronze horses at Venice and the statue of Marcus Aurelius must have been in Donatello's mind.
[93] The sculptor of a beautiful tomb erected for the Countess of Montorio and her infant daughter in the church of S.Bernardino at Aquila was probably Andrea dell' Aquila, a pupil of Donatello.