46 That is professional assistance by artists or pupils. Workmen were
employed to plaster each day's section of work, writers to do the
lettering, and even decorative workmen for architectural details.
47 These quarries are in the Alpi Apuane near Viareggio, we are
informed by a modern Florentine sculptor that this marble is of
excellent quality.
48 See pp. 183-185.
49 This column was still lying in the Piazza of San Lorenzo in 1888; it
has now been removed.
50 Michael Angelo's love for Lorenzo the Magnificent never abated, and
these tombs may be regarded as a tribute to his early patron's
memory. He worked upon them in secret during the siege itself.
51 Condivi had not seen this sacristy and described it merely from the
fragmentary recollections of the master.
52 Possibly in the Duke's collection there may have been an antique gem
engraved with the story of Leda which influenced Michael Angelo in
his choice of this classical subject for the picture he painted for
the Duke.
53 The best version of this picture is in one the offices of the
National Gallery, London; it is probably the much restored original
which was supposed to have been destroyed by order of M. Desnoyers.
See p. 204.
54 Francis I.
55 Afterwards Cardinal Pole, Papal Legate in the time of King Henry
VIII. and Queen Mary I., born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire,
1500; died November 18, 1558.
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