In 1534, when he finally abandoned the sacristy, and, leaving Florence for ever, settled in Rome, the Laurentian library was only begun, and he had little interest in it.

He never saw it again.

At Rome his time was fully occupied in painting the "Last Judgment" in the Sixtine Chapel, and in various architectural works.

But Florence at any rate has two marble masterpieces that belong to the later period--the Brutus in the Bargello and the Pieta in the Duomo, which we have seen--that poignantly impressive rendering of the entombment upon which the old man was at work when he died, and which he meant for his own grave.
His death came in 1564, on February 23rd, when he was nearly eighty-nine, and his body was brought to Florence and buried amid universal grief in S.Croce, where it has a florid monument.
Since we are considering the life of Michelangelo, I might perhaps say here a few words about his house, which is only a few minutes' distant--at No.

64 Via Ghibellina--where certain early works and personal relics are preserved.