75 the sarcophagus of the helmeted figure was
opened and evidence found proving it to be unquestionably the tomb of
Lorenzo, as Vasari had said. Both tombs remain as originally placed in
the new sacristy of the church of San Lorenzo, Florence.

15. _Central Figures of the Last Judgment_, a fresco painting on the
wall of the Sistine Chapel, executed by the order of the Pope Paul
III., who in 1535 appointed Michelangelo chief architect, sculptor,
and painter at the Vatican. The work occupied several years and was
completed in 1541.

IV. COLLATERAL READINGS FROM LITERATURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEVERAL WORKS HERE REPRESENTED.

The Madonna and Child and the Holy Family:--

The Latin hymn, Mater Speciosa, by Jacobus de Benedictis,
translated by Dr. Neale.

David:--

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. History of the Jewish Church, Part
II. Lectures XXII.-XXV.: David.

Robert Browning. Poem, Saul.

Psalm Twenty-three.

Cupid:--

Richard Crashaw. Poem, Cupid's Cryer; out of the Greek.

Edmund Gosse. Poem, Cupido Crucifixus.

Moses:--

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. History of the Jewish Church, Part
I, Lectures V.-VIII.: Moses.

Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney. The Open Mystery: A Reading of the
Mosaic Story, Part IV.

The Song of Moses: Deuteronomy, chapter xxxii.

The Prayer of Moses: Psalm Ninety.

Cecil Frances Alexander. Poem, The Burial of Moses.

Sonnet on the statue of Moses by Giovanni Battista Felice
Zappi, translated by J.A. Symonds (in Life of Michelangelo
Buonarotti).

The Pieta:--

Latin hymn, Stabat Mater, by Jacobus de Benedictis,
translated by Lord Lindsay, by General Dix or by Dr. Coles.

Christ Triumphant:--

Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo Vadis, chapter lxix.

Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, general impressions:--

Symonds. Renaissance in Italy, volume on the Fine Arts,
chapter viii.: Life of Michael Angelo.

Taine. Italy, book iii., chapter ix.: Michael Angelo.

Andersen. The Improvisatore, chapter xii.: Allegri's
Miserere, in the Sistine Chapel.

The Creation of Man:--

Milton. Paradise Lost, book VIII., lines 500-528.

Jeremiah:--

Lucy Larcom. Poem, The Weeping Prophet.

Daniel:--

Sir Edwin Arnold. Poem, The Feast of Belshazzar.

The Delphic Sibyl:--

Lord Houghton. Delphi, a poem included in Longfellow's
co