The choice lay between two other Roman churches, that of S.Maria del Popolo, where monuments to several members of the Della Rovere family existed, and that of S.Pietro in Vincoli, from which Julius II.

had taken his cardinal's title.

Michelangelo decided for the latter, on account of its better lighting.

The six statues promised by Michelangelo are stated in the contract to be "begun and not completed, extant at the present date in Rome or in Florence." Which of the several statues blocked out for the monument were to be chosen is not stated; and as there are no specifications in the document, we cannot identify them with exactness.

At any rate, the Moses must have been one; and it is possible that the Leah and Rachel, Madonna, and two seated statues, now at S.Pietro, were the other five.
It might have been thought that at last the tragedy had dragged on to its conclusion.