The gentle happiness of the redeemed, as represented by the blessed Frate Angelico is absent from the scene--it could not appear without destroying the unities of the tragedy.

Peace will follow as the blessed walk in the Elysian fields after they have passed, with a fearful joy, from the judgment seat.

Michael Angelo has followed the traditional composition of the subject in all its lines and details, adapting it with the least change possible to the space at his command, and to the superior knowledge of the drawing of the human form that he possessed.

It is most interesting to compare this rendering with the same subject in the Campo Santo at Pisa.

Every part of the composition is repeated, the action of the Judge, the Madonna beside Him on His right, Apostles on either side, the resurrection of the dead, the descent into hell, the angels blowing the trumpets in the centre of the lower part, the angels bearing the cross and other implements of the Passion in the upper corners.