The rough charcoal drawing upon the block of marble, could we see it, would have been complete to us, only Michael Angelo could add anything to it; and so it is with every fragment of stone or other piece of work by his hand, from the lightest charcoal drawing to the great marble fragments in the grotto of the Boboli Gardens.

They are complete to us; the thing he thought is there, and the art is there, and we are satisfied.
[Image #9] THE HOLY FAMILY THE UFFIZI, FLORENCE (_Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig.

D.Anderson, Rome_) Another tondo executed about this time is the painting now in the Uffizi, the only easel picture known with certainty to be by the hand of Michael Angelo.

This Holy Family, with naked shepherds in the background, was painted for Angelo Doni, the same man whose portrait was painted by Raphael.

Vasari says that Michael Angelo asked seventy ducats for the work, but that Doni only offered forty when the picture was delivered.
Michael Angelo sent word that he must pay a hundred or send back the picture.