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of his death. In some of its details merely a replica of
that of Sixtus, the monument is yet, on account of its
superb portrait statues of the Pope, a fitting culmina-
tion to his life’s work. The supreme point of his
achievement artistically and technically was attained in
the Tomb of Sixtus, as a realistic and psychological
portraitist in the two statues of Innocent, living and
dead. Thus by an irony of chance both Pollaiuolo and
Verrocchio, appreciated and honoured to the utmost by
their fellow townsmen, left, not to those among whom
their lives had been passed, but to strangers, their
noblest work.
The Tomb of Innocent was completed but a very
short time before Antonio’s death. On Jan. 30, 1498,
the remains of the Pope were transferred from their
temporary resting place to the sarcophagus, and less
than a week after, on Feb. 4, Antonio died.*
Fifteen months before ( Nov. 4, 1496) he had made
his testament, a lengthy document, from which however’
few facts of interest are forthcoming. He desires that
if he dies in Rome, his body shall be buried in S. Pietro
in Vincoli, from which it may be assumed that he was
living in the parish of that church. If, on the other
hand, he dies in Florence, he wishes to be buried in the
tomb of his ancestors, but where that was he does not
specify. He leaves to each of his daughters by his wife
Lucrezia, a dowry of 1000 gold ducats and his property,
* •' In uno strumento del 27 maggio 1511 rogato di Ser Angelo da
Cascese si legge che la morte d’Antonio accadde in Roma il 4 feb-
brajo dell’ anno 1498.” See Milaneses note, Vasari, iii. p. 299.