An incident of this sort happened while he was studying under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, and its consequences marked him physically for life.

The young artists whom the Magnificent gathered round him used to practise drawing in the Brancacci Chapel of the Carmine.

There Masaccio and his followers bequeathed to us noble examples of the grand style upon the frescoed panels of the chapel walls.

It was the custom of industrious lads to make transcripts from those broad designs, some of which Raphael deigned in his latest years to repeat, with altered manner, for the Stanze of the Vatican and the Cartoons.

Michelangelo went one day into the Carmine with Piero Torrigiano and other comrades.