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Of the six figures of the virtues that were commissioned for the baptismal font in the Baptistery, including ones from Giovanni di Turino, and Goro di ser Neroccio, Donatello created those of Faith and Hope. Both figures are positively moving out of the tabernacles in an extreme sideways turning. These statues show a lyrical grace that is different from the relief of the Herod's Banquet on the side of the font, suggesting that his temporary collaboration with Ghiberti on the decoration of the font may have caused Donatello to return to earlier methods of expression that had long been abandoned.
Faith is personified by a woman who is dressed in a voluminous garment and in her left hand is holding the cup which, in the Eucharist, symbolizes the forgiveness of sins.
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