But these attributes are doubtful, and will be criticised in their proper place and time.

Suffice it now to say that Vasari reports, beside the Moses, Victory, and two Captives at the Louvre, eight figures for the tomb blocked out by Michelangelo at Rome, and five blocked out at Florence.
Continuing the history of this tragic undertaking, we come to the year 1516.

On the 8th of July in that year, Michelangelo signed a new contract, whereby the previous deed of 1513 was annulled.

Both of the executors were alive and parties to this second agreement.

"A model was made, the width of which is stated at twenty-one feet, after the monument had been already sculptured of a width of almost twenty-three feet.