The picture right, i.e., the spectator's left.
"To bloom," as a painter of to-day would say.
See p. 163.
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.
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.
These quarries are in the Alpi Apuane near Viareggio, we are informed by a modern Florentine sculptor that this marble is of excellent quality.
See pp. 183-185.
This column was still lying in the Piazza of San Lorenzo in 1888; it has now been removed.
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.
Condivi had not seen this sacristy and described it merely from the fragmentary recollections of the master.