Accordingly, five statues were assigned to Raffaello da Montelupo.

"But while I was painting the new chapel for Pope Paul III., his Holiness, at my earnest prayer, allowed me a little time, during which I finished two of them, namely, the Active and Contemplative Life, with my own hand." With all his good-will, however, Michelangelo did not wholly extricate himself from the anxieties of this miserable affair.

As late as the year 1553, Annibale Caro wrote to Antonio Gallo entreating him to plead for the illustrious old man with the Duke of Urbino.

"I assure you that the extreme distress caused him by being in disgrace with his Excellency is sufficient to bring his grey hairs to the grave before his time." VI The Tomb of Julius, as it now appears in the Church of S.Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, is a monument composed of two discordant parts, by inspecting which a sympathetic critic is enabled to read the dreary history of its production.

As Condivi allows, it was a thing "rattoppata e rifatta," patched together and hashed up.
The lower half represents what eventually survived from the grandiose original design for one facade of that vast mount of marble which was to have been erected in the Tribune of St.Peter's.