There are wreaths of poppy heads, symbols of sleep, and a moon and stars to crown the head that is like the head of a greater than Diana.
Evening, a brawny, hard-worked man, looks across the chapel with pity towards the Night.

He appears to be in the act of straightening and stretching out his limbs, lately bent by the toils of the day, in longed-for rest.
[Image #42] THE MADONNA AND CHILD THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE (_By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence_) The virgin Dawn lifts her weary head, as it were, in despair, that another day of shame and reproach is beginning; her long, lithe limbs and narrow hips contrast with the ample girth and muscular power of the Night.

The modelling of the torso of this figure is, perhaps, the finest piece of workmanship in the chapel, and should be studied from every point of view, even from the back of the monument.

The muscular forms and the disposition of the lines are so beautiful and true that it is a veritable marvel and wonder of the world.

The right proportion of development necessary for a figure of that colossal size to move and live has never been so well calculated.