THE CHAPEL OF POPE PAUL AND THE PIETA OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE LIV.

Finally, Pope Paul having built a chapel on the same floor as the before-mentioned Sistine, he desired to decorate it in his own memory, and he made Michael Angelo paint the frescoes on the side walls.

In one is represented the crucifixion of St.Peter; in the other the story of St.
Paul--how he was converted by the apparition of Jesus Christ--both stupendous in general composition as in the individual figures.

And this is the last work of painting by Michael Angelo that has been seen to this day; he finished it in his seventy-fifth year.

At present he has in hand a group in marble, which he works at for his pleasure, as one who full of ideas and powers must produce something every day.