They say the entire mausoleum was intended for the Holy Sepulchre, and was only turned into a family burying place after the Jerusalem expedition failed--but you will excuse me.

Some of those Medicis would have smuggled themselves in sure .-- What they had not the effrontery to do, was not worth doing.

Why, they had their trivial, forgotten exploits on land and sea pictured out in grand frescoes (as did also the ancient Doges of Venice) with the Saviour and the Virgin throwing bouquets to them out of the clouds, and the Deity himself applauding from his throne in Heaven! And who painted these things?
Why, Titian, Tintoretto, Paul Veronese, Raphael--none other than the world's idols, the "old masters." Andrea del Sarto glorified his princes in pictures that must save them for ever from the oblivion they merited, and they let him starve.

Served him right.

Raphael pictured such infernal villains as Catherine and Marie de Medicis seated in heaven and conversing familiarly with the Virgin Mary and the angels, (to say nothing of higher personages,) and yet my friends abuse me because I am a little prejudiced against the old masters--because I fail sometimes to see the beauty that is in their productions.