thevault were the Prophets and the Sibyls, andthose different voices of the past who pro-phesied of the coming of Messiah, and inthe corners the stories of the four greatdeliverances of Israel. We have no finishedpicture of Michael Angelos in the NationalGallery, and altogether his work seems… … ■VI-] FINE ART—PAINTING. 265 creation. The splendour and terror of hisconceptions seemed, to heighten and deepenas his age advanced. He was sixty whenhe painted his terrible picture of the LastJudgment, and, in 1546, he undertook tofinish the rebuilding of St. Peters at Rome,and made the design for…
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