Jameson, Anna: Memoirs of the early Italian painters, and of the progress of painting in Italy: from Cimabue to Bassano; in 2 volumes (vol. 1) (London: Charles Knight & Co., 1845)

S6 EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
Lorenzo Ghiberti died about the year 1455, at
the age of seventy-seven. His former competitors,
Brunelleschi and Donatello, remained his friends
through life, and have left behind them names not
less celebrated, the one as an architect, the other as
a sculptor.
This is the history of those famous gates
“ So marvellously wrought,
That they might serve to be the gates of Heaven 1”