The sculptor undertook to furnish one each year, the Board of Works defraying all expenses, supplying the costs of Michelangelo's living and his assistants, and paying him two golden florins a month.

Besides this, they had a house built for him in the Borgo Pinti after Il Cronaca's design.

He occupied this house free of charges while he was in Florence, until it became manifest that the contract of 1503 would never be carried out.

Later on, in March 1508, the tenement was let on lease to him and his heirs.

But he only held it a few months; for on the 15th of June the lease was cancelled, and the house transferred to Sigismondo Martelli.
The only trace surviving of these twelve Apostles is the huge blocked-out S.Matteo, now in the courtyard of the Accademia.