He did not, however, obtain possession of this ferry until 1537, and the benefice proved so unremunerative that it was exchanged for a little post in the Chancery at Rimini.
When Michelangelo began to work again in the Sistine Chapel, the wall above the altar was adorned with three great sacred subjects by the hand of Pietro Perugino.

In the central fresco of the Assumption Perugino introduced a portrait of Sixtus IV.

kneeling in adoration before the ascending Madonna.

The side panels were devoted to the Nativity and the finding of Moses.

In what condition Michelangelo found these frescoes before the painting of the Last Judgment we do not know.