And so, arriving at the summit, the tomb ended in a level space, whereon were two angels who supported a sarcophagus.

One of them appeared to smile, rejoicing that the soul of the Pope had been received among the blessed spirits; the other seemed to weep, as sorrowing that the world had been robbed of such a man.

From one of the ends, that is, by the one which was at the head of the monument, access was given to a little chamber like a chapel, enclosed within the monument, in the midst of which was a marble chest, wherein the corpse of the Pope was meant to be deposited.

The whole would have been executed with stupendous finish.

In short, the sepulchre included more than forty statues, not counting the histories in half-reliefs, made of bronze, all of them pertinent to the general scheme and representative of the mighty Pontiff's actions." Vasari's account differs in some minor details from Condivi's, but it is of no authoritative value.