Condivi calls both of them "stupendous not only in the general exposition of the histories but also in the details of each figure." It is also true that the technical finish of these large compositions shows a perfect mastery of painting, and that the great designer has not lost his power of dealing at will with the human body.

But the frigidity of old age had fallen on his feeling and imagination.

The faces of his saints and angels here are more inexpressive than those of the Last Judgment.

The type of form has become still more rigidly schematic.

All those figures in violent attitudes have been invented in the artist's brain without reference to nature; and the activity of movement which he means to suggest, is frozen, petrified, suspended.