The robe, again, in its voluminous and snaky coils, and the triangular nimbus of the Deity, convey an effect of heaviness rather than of majesty.

Yet we feel, while studying this composition, that it is a noble and original attempt, falling but little short of supreme accomplishment.

Without this antecedent sketch, Michael Angelo might not have matured the most complete of all his designs in the Sistine Chapel.

The similarity between Delia Quercia's bas-relief and Buonarroti's fresco of Eve is incontestable.

The young Florentine, while an exile in Bologna, and engaged upon the shrine of S.Dominic, must have spent hours of study before the sculptures of S.
Petronio; so that this seed of Della Quercia's sowing bore after many years the fruit of world-renowned achievement in Rome.
Two other memorable works of Della Quercia must be parenthetically mentioned.