"Netherlands Diary," 1520-21.

32 Now in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence.

33 Michael Angelo received payment for the cartoon probably in Florence
on February the 28th, 1505 ("Gaye," ii., p. 93), and he went to
Carrara in April of that year, so the delay was only two months, a
short enough time to prepare his great design.

34 The right bank of the Tiber below Rome. On the opposite shore is the
Marmorata, where blocks of marble were unloaded in the times of the
ancient Romans; some are there to this day.

35 The covered way from the Vatican to the Castle of Saint Angelo.

36 Heath Wilson estimates the area it would have covered as 34-1/2 ft.
by 23 ft. (p. 74).

37 Michael Angelo fled from Rome during the week after Easter, 1506. He
relates the circumstances in a letter of October 1542, No. c. d.
xxxv. "Le Lettere p. 489," which corroborates Condivi's story word
for word, and is another proof of the autobiographical nature of
these memoirs.

38 No fragments of this cartoon remain; perhaps the best copy is that
in possession of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall. See also p.
124.

39 Like the good Catholic he was, he went to hear mass as soon as he
had completed his journey; he always behaved as a good son of the
Church.

40 This composition is generally known as the "Sacrifice of Noah," see
p. 172. Condivi evidently did not refer these descriptions to the
master, they are so full of curious individualities of his own.

41 That is the picture right.

42 The picture right, _i.e._, the spectator's left.

43 "To bloom," as a painter of to-day would say.

44 See p. 163.

45 See pp. 147-165 and 183. The first half may be estimated to have
taken eight months and a few days, and the second half from January
1510 to October 1512, with intervals for journeys to Florence, to
Bologna, and other interruptions.

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 Pi