[Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Charles Holroyd]@TWC D-Link bookMichael Angelo Buonarroti CHAPTER IX 14/21
Let him look to setting the world in order: to reform a picture costs no great trouble." Pius V.also employed Girolamo da Fano to make some further alterations.
These retouches _a secco_ have destroyed to a great extent the atmospheric quality and the relation of the planes in Michael Angelo's suave true-fresco method, which, as may be seen in the vault, gives the grey half-tints of the flesh-tones in a way only equalled by Andrea del Sarto in fresco and Rembrandt in oil painting. As soon as Michael Angelo had finished the Last Judgment, Paul III.
set him to work again to fresco the walls of the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, just completed by Antonio da San Gallo, and now known as the Cappella Paolina.
Michael Angelo had hoped to complete the Tomb of Julius at once, with his own hand, but the Pope's determination necessitated further negotiations with the Duke of Urbino.
The Duke wrote to Michael Angelo upon March 6, 1542, saying that he would be quite satisfied if the three statues by his hand, including the Moses, were assigned to the Tomb, the execution of the rest being left to competent workmen under him.( 150) There is also a petition from Michael Angelo to Paul III.( 151) stating that his Holiness the Pope's commission for Michael Angelo to work and paint in his new chapel prevents him finishing the Tomb as agreed with the illustrious signor Duke of Urbino.
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