Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects (1912)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, De Vere, Gaston du C · London, Macmillan and co. ld. & The Medici society, ld. · leaf 176
ed it. This edifice is now being made so beautiful that it isworthy to be numbered among the finest works that Michelagnolo hasexecuted, and it is being carried to completion at the present day underthe direction of M. Tommaso de Cavalieri, a Roman gentleman who was,and still is, one of the… … MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI 67 to finish the roof on the outer side, had still to be constructed, and hisHoliness desired that Michelagnolo should execute it from his own designsand directions. Michelagnolo, not being able to refuse the Pope, who soesteemed and favoured him, caused a model of wood to…
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