It is the contrast between celestial love asleep in lustful souls, and vulgar love inflaming tyrannous appetites:-- _The one love soars, the other downward tends; The soul lights this, while that the senses stir, And still lust's arrow at base quarry flies._ This magnificent design was engraved during Buonarroti's lifetime, or shortly afterwards, by Niccolo Beatrizet.

Some follower of Raffaello used the print for a fresco in the Palazzo Borghese at Rome.

It forms one of the series in which Raffaello's marriage of Alexander and Roxana is painted.

This has led some critics to ascribe the drawing itself to the Urbinate.

Indeed, at first sight, one might almost conjecture that the original chalk study was a genuine work of Raffaello, aiming at rivalry with Michelangelo's manner.