It is placed, historically, before the Deluge, and must be taken to represent how Noah, the just man and perfect, and his family, found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

As there are five male persons present, this scene cannot represent the sacrifice immediately after the Flood, nor is any rainbow to be seen as was usual in the traditional representations of that subject, like the one in the Chiostro Verde at Santa Maria Novella.

Raphael also gives more figures than can be accounted for as having been in the ark in his composition of the sacrifice of Noah, in the series called the Bible of Raphael in the Loggia.

The large composition of the Deluge gives us some idea of what the cartoon of Pisa may have been like.

There never was a collection of naked figures so many and so beautiful.