So it may have been the complete work on the flat part of the vault that was shown to the world, including the story of the Creation and Fall of Man; and it was not, therefore, so very unreasonable of Bramante to propose that Raphael should continue the work, for he probably did not know of Michael Angelo's intention of commemorating the promise of the Redeemer by his prophets and sibyls upon the curved surface of the vaulting.

Michael Angelo was naturally indignant at his action, but Julius, who probably was the only man who knew Michael Angelo's scheme, commanded him to complete his work.
We gather from a letter to his father that the scaffolding for completing the painting of the vault was not put up on September 7, 1510.
[Image #24] THE PROPHET JOEL SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME (_By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence_) _To_ LODOVICO DI BUONARROTA SIMONI, _in Florence_.
_From_ ROME, _September 7, 1510._ "DEAREST FATHER,--I have received your last, and hear with the greatest anxiety that Buonarroto is ill; therefore, as soon as you see this, go to the Spedalingo( 116) and make him give you fifty or an hundred ducats; you may need them.

Arrange that all things necessary be provided in good time, and that there be no lack of money.

Let me tell you how that I am waiting to receive from the Pope five hundred ducats, well earned, and he should give me as much again to put up the scaffolding and go on with the other part of my work.

And he has gone from here without leaving me any orders.