two pieces, of four
braccia and a half each, on the Ripa were stolen from me by
Agostino Chigi, which had cost me more than fifty gold ducats; and
these could be claimed for, because there are witnesses. But to
return to the marbles. From the time that I went for them, and
that I remained at Carrara, until I was driven from the Palace,
was more than a year, for which period I never received anything,
and I paid out many tens of ducats.

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CREATION OF MAN

SISTINE CHAPEL
(_By permission of Messrs. Braun, Clement & Co., in Dornach,
Alsace_)

"Afterwards, the first time Pope Julius went to Bologna, I was
obliged to take my courage in both hands and go there to beg his
pardon; then he ordered me to make his portrait in bronze, which
was seated, about seven braccia high. He asking me what it would
cost, I said I believed I could cast it for a thousand ducats, but
that it was not my art and that I could not promise. He replied to
me: 'Go to work and cast it until it come well, and we will give
you what will content you.' To be brief, it was cast twice. At the
end of the two years that I stayed there I found myself four
ducats and a half in pocket; and during that time I never received
anything for all the expenses that I had, except the thousand
ducats which I had said that I could cast it for; these were paid
me in several installments by Messer Antonio Maria da Legnia
(_me_), the Bolognese.

"Having hoisted the figure on to the facade of San Petronio, and
returned to Rome, Pope Julius did not yet wish me to go on with
the tomb, but set me to paint the vault of Sisto, and we made an
agreement for three thousand ducats. The first design was for
twelve apostles in the lunettes, and for the rest certain
compartments filled with ornaments of the usual sort.

"After beginning the said work it seemed to me it would be but a
poor thing. He asked me why? I told him, because they also were
poor. Then he gave me a new order to do what I would, and that he
would satisfy me, and that I was to paint down to the stories
below. When the vault was almost finished the Pope returned to
Bologna, where I went twice for money I needed, uselessly, and
lost all my t