There is a heap of mud opposite your door, thick and firm enough to hold them upright.

Here then will I set them all up, and light them." When Michael Angelo heard this he gave way: "Lay them down; I do not mean you to play pranks at my house door." Vasari tells another anecdote about the Deposition.

Pope Julius III.

sent him late one evening to Michael Angelo's house for a certain drawing.

The aged master came down with a lantern, and, hearing what was wanted, told Urbino to look for the design.