These qualities are replaced by meditation and an air of rapt devotion.

The drawings for the Passion might be called the prayers and pious thoughts of the stern master.
Red chalk he used for some of his most brilliant conceptions.

It is not necessary to dwell upon the bending woman's head at Oxford, or the torso of the lance-bearer at Vienna.

Let us confine our attention to what is perhaps the most pleasing and most perfect of all Michelangelo's designs--the "Bersaglio," or the "Arcieri," in the Queen's collection at Windsor.
It is a group of eleven naked men and one woman, fiercely footing the air, and driving shafts with all their might to pierce a classical terminal figure, whose face, like that of Pallas, and broad breast are guarded by a spreading shield.

The draughtsman has indicated only one bow, bent with fury by an old man in the background.