The paper, moreover, is indorsed in Michelangelo's handwriting with a memorandum bearing the date April 12, 1530.

We have then in this masterpiece of draughtsmanship an example, not of Raffaello in a Michelangelising mood, but of Michelangelo for once condescending to surpass Raffaello on his own ground of loveliness and rhythmic grace..