Medium: Windsor & Newton Oil Pastels Dimension: 22’’X30’’ on Strathmore 300 Pd Watercolor Paper Michelangelo’s Crystal Vase filled with exquisite florals of jasmine, sweet peas, anemomies and violets. CELESTIAL LOVE by: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) O mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes When perfect peace in thy fair face I found; But far within, where all is holy ground, My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies: For she was born with God in Paradise; Nor all the shows of beauty shed around This fair false world her wings to earth have bound: Unto the Love of Loves aloft she flies. Nay, things that suffer death, quench not the fire Of deathless spirits; nor eternity Serves sordid Time, that withers all things rare. Not love but lawless impulse is desire: That slays the soul; our love makes still more fair Our friends on earth, fairer in death on high.