\qj \b0 "...where he depicted God carried by a group of nude young angels, who not only appear to be holding a figure but the weight of the whole world... a figure whose beauty, pose and contours are such that it seems to have been created that
very moment by the first and supreme Creator rather than by the paint brush and drawing of a mortal man."\par
\i0 (Giorgio Vasari, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti fiorentino, 1568, and Bettarini Barocchi 1987, pages 40-41)\par