Michelangelo's London "Entombment" and the church of S. Agostino, Rome.
Michelangelo was commissioned of an altarpiece for S. Agostino, Rome. Documents show that in Sept. 1500 M. received 60 ducats to print a panel for a chapel in the church, endowed through the legacy of Giovanni Ebu, the deceased bishop of Crotone. In 1501 he abandoned the project, returned the money, and the commission passed to a maestro Andrea. M's panel begun for the chapel della Pietà, where now Caravaggio's Madonna is, is proposed to be the unfinished panel of Christ carried to the tomb in the National Gallery in London. The A. affords several documents from the Archives of S. Agostino, now in the Archivio di Stato, Rome.