S.Sebastian frowns down on hell with a sheaf of arrows quivering in his stalwart arm.

The saws, the carding-combs, the crosses, and the grid-irons, all subserve the same purpose of reminding Christ that, if He does not damn the wicked, confessors will have died with Him in vain.

It is singular that, while Michelangelo depicted so many attitudes of expectation, eagerness, anxiety, and astonishment in the blest, he has given to none of them the expression of gratitude, or love, or sympathy, or shrinking awe.
Men and women, old and young alike, are human beings of Herculean build.

Paradise, according to Buonarroti's conception, was not meant for what is graceful, lovely, original, and tender.

The hosts of heaven are adult and over-developed gymnasts.