Who has not been, or is not a good master of the figure, and especially of anatomy, cannot understand it.
"MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI." Vasari tells us "that the Pope approved of Michael Angelo's model, which reduced the cathedral to smaller dimensions, but also to a more essential greatness.

He discovered that four of the principal piers, erected by Bramante and left standing by Antonio da Sangallo, which had to bear the weight of the tribune, were feeble.

These he fortified in part, constructing a winding staircase at the side with gently sloping steps, up which beasts of burden ascend with building material, and one can ride on horseback to the level above the arches.

He carried the first cornice, made of travertine, round the arches--a wonderful piece of work, full of grace, and very different from the others.

Nor could anything be better done in its kind.