CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE BY CONDIVI LVII.

Now to consider my remarks.

I say, that it seems to me, that nature has endowed Michael Angelo so largely with all her riches in these arts of painting and sculpture, that I am not to be reproached for saying that his figures are almost inimitable.

Nor does it appear that I have allowed myself to be too much carried away, for until now he alone has worthily taken up both chisel and brush.

Of the painting of the ancients there is no memorial, and to whom does he yield in their sculpture (of which, indeed, much remains)?
In the judgment of men learned in the art, to no one, unless we stoop to the opinion of the vulgar, who admire the antique for the sole reason that they envy the genius and industry of their own times.