The two servants are grouped below in conversation, one on each side of the browsing ass.

This power of telling a story plainly, but without dramatic vehemence; of eliminating the painful details of the subject, and combining its chief motives into one agreeable whole, gave peculiar charm to Ghiberti's manner.

It marked him as an artist distinguished by good taste.
How Delia Quercia treated the "Sacrifice of Isaac" we do not know.

His bas-reliefs upon the facade of S.Petronio at Bologna, and round the font of S.John's Chapel in the cathedral of Siena, enable us, however, to compare his style with that of Ghiberti in the handling of a subject common to both, the "Creation of Eve."[82] There is no doubt but that Della Quercia was a formidable rival.

Had the gates of the Baptistery been entrusted to his execution, we might have possessed a masterpiece of more heroic style.