The miracle of the ship

In the bas-reliefs on the sides of the arca narrating the saint's miracles, the collaboration of the pupils was quite considerable, with results, often, of heaviness and awkwardness; but when the savoury, particularising naturalism of the Lombards dissolves harmoniously into the inexhaustible linear elegance of Balduccio's forms, the result is passages of lively and most felicitous narration.