Those, however, who have paid attention to his work will discover that he always found emotional quality corresponding to the nature of the subject.

His ways of handling religious and mythological motives differ in sentiment, and both are distinguished from his treatment of dramatic episodes.

The man's mind made itself a mirror to reflect the vision gloating over it; he cared not what that vision was, so long as he could render it in lines of plastic harmony, and express the utmost of the feeling which the theme contained.
Among the many statues left unfinished by Michelangelo is one belonging to this period of his life.

"In order to ingratiate himself with Baccio Valori," says Vasari, "he began a statue of three cubits in marble.

It was an Apollo drawing a shaft from his quiver.