exaled

Updated: June 29, 2025

Regarded from this point of view, the Last Judgment was an unparalleled success. As such the contemporaries of Buonarroti hailed it. Still, the breath of life has exaled from all those bodies, and the tyranny of the schematic ideal of form is felt in each of them.

John Addington Symonds - The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti