This is the work of which it is recorded that when folk told Michael Angelo it would be better than the lantern of Brunelleschi, he replied: "Different, perhaps; but better, no!" In the British Museum there is a drawing with a bit of advice to young artists, personified in his new pupil, Antonio Mini.

It is in Michael Angelo's own hand:-- _Disegna Antonio, disegna Antonio, disegna e non perder tempo._ Draw Antonio, draw Antonio, draw and do not lose time.
And now in August 1524,( 129) the Tombs of the Medici in the new sacristy were fairly under way.

There are several preliminary designs in the Print Room of the British Museum, the Albertina at Vienna, and the Uffizi, Florence.( 130) The first idea was for the tombs to be isolated in the centre of the chapel, but we gather from a letter, written in May 1524,( 131) that it had already been decided to have mural monuments.

The sarcophagi were to support portrait statues of the Dukes and Popes, of Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano.

At the foot were to be six rivers, two under each tomb--the Arno, Tiber, Metauro, Po, Taro, and Ticino.