The other day I went, as you requested, to Fra Sebastiano.

He sends a thousand messages, but all to pray you to come back.
"Your affectionate, "THOMAS CAVALIERI." Messer Tomaso feared the drawings would be damaged in the workshop of the gem engraver.

There are several of these drawings in existence in good condition, with no marks of the thumbs of workmen about them.
From the letters referring to the last contract about the Tomb of Julius, we learn that the frescoes in the Cappella Paolina were not begun in October 1542.

Michael Angelo worked at them with slight interruptions for seven years; they represent the Conversion of Saint Paul and the Martyrdom of Saint Peter.

They are very highly finished in execution and studied in grace of composition, but frigid, and too evidently the work of an old man.