Another, blurred and indistinct, with clumsy architectural environment, exhibits two of these allegories, arranged much as we now see them at S.Lorenzo.

A river-god, recumbent beneath the feet of a female statue, carries the eye down to the ground, and enables us to comprehend how these subordinate figures were wrought into the complex harmony of flowing lines he had imagined.

The seventh study differs in conception from the rest; it stands alone.

There are four handlings of what begins like a huge portal, and is gradually elaborated into an architectural scheme containing three great niches for statuary.

It is powerful and simple in design, governed by semicircular arches--a feature which is absent from the rest.
All these drawings are indubitably by the hand of Michelangelo, and must be reckoned among his first free efforts to construct a working plan.