That is not counting the frescoes of the Cappella Paolina in the Vatican, painted about 1544, which are now in a far worse state even than the "Last Judgment," and which can never have done more than show his style in decadence.

[332]

See above, pp. [65]-[67].

[333]

See Gotti, p. 307, or Archivio Buonarroti, p. 535.

[334]

I have reserved my translation of the sonnets that cast most light upon Michael Angelo's thought and feeling for an Appendix, No. II.