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Part I. lieth upon his Tomb, cost threescore thousand Crowns, by which you may guess at the rest. Indeed these stately Tombs make almost death it self look lovely, and dead Mens ashes grow proud again. As for the Altar and Tabernacle of this Chapel, I will speak of them by and by, when I will describe the Gallery of the Great Duke, where they are kept till the Chapel be finished.

the Churce of S. Lorenzo.

2. The Church of S. Laurence, to which belongs this Chapel, or rather to which this Chapel belongs; is a very handsom Church designed by Brunelleschi himself. The things that grace this Church are the neat double-row of round Pillars which hold up the Roof of this Fabrick. The Picture over the Quire painted in the Roof, representing the general Judgment. It's a bold Piece, and of Pontorno: The two Brazen Pulpits wrought into Histories by rare Donatello: the curious designed Picture of S. Anne and our Blessed Lady, in chiaro e oscuro, by Fra Bartolomeo, commonly called Del Frate, is so well a designed Piece, that a Duke of Mantua having seen it, offered to buy it at any rate, but was refused. The new Sacristy (made to serve the fine Chapel described above) deserves to be carefully visited, because of the Bodies of the Princes of the Family of Medices, which are deposited here, till the Chapel mentioned above be finished. In this new Sacristy also are seen the four Statues made by Michael Angelo, representing the Day, the Night, Aurora, and the Evening; the four parts which compose Time, by which all Men are brought to their Graves: That which represents Night is a rare Statue,