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?
See the Commentaries of Ghiberti, printed in vol. i. of Vasari (Lemonnier, 1846).
The patera is at South Kensington, the frieze at Florence.