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Façade wing. The façade itself appears in its present condition in an elevation (Tolnay, loc. cit.) on fol. 98 (the cornice is sketched only in profile) and section, fol. 99 (Pl. 48b). Nothing of the third story appears on the court side, but since the artist shows a roor, the interior walls probably where finished. In plans of the ground floor and second story (Pls. 49a-b; fol. 97r, v), the only major difference from the existing palace is the open second-story court arcade (Pl. 49b the balustrade has been built only in the central bay).

Side wings. The court elevation of the right wing appears in the section, fol. 99 (Pl. 48b). Again, only two stories are shown; all the second-story windows are drawn, but the brick wall into which they are set is indicated only in the three forward bays; apparently the two rear bays were still under construction. In the plans (Pls. 49a-b), we see only the left wing, in its present state; here all the windows are in place. 

Rear wing. On the ground floor the condition of the left corner apparently in unchanged since Sangallo's time (Pls. 47a, 49a). The corner stairway and room and the tinello have the form of Pl. 47a. A confusion about the corner window overlooking the garden appears in other plans, where it is sometimes walled up. The dispensa to the left of the rear loggia is unclear; while the forward half is inked, the rear is sketched only in chalk without apertures, indicating that at most the foundations were finished. A choice between the corridor scheme (Pl. 47b and Vignola's drawing) and the loggia scheme (Pl. 48a) still had to be made. Nothing is shown of thec right half of the rear wing.

In the second story (Pl. 49b), only three arches of the court arcade are complete; their balconies are not built, nor are the windows in the end bays proposed by Michelangelo (Pl. 43b; perhaps the proposal already had been abandoned). The rooms behind have not been started, since the ground floor walls were unfinished; the street façade on the left has not quite reached the rear corner.

The third story. Although the drawings show none of the third-story construction on the court, a sketch (fol. 100v) of Michelangelo's windows is measured so meticulously that one or more of them must have been in place, presumably an the façade wing.

Summary. The garden front remained as it had been since 1546; the second-story court elevation was finished to a height of two stories except for two windows on the right wing, and two arches on the rear wing; the third story was partly or wholly complete on the façade wing.

The date of the drawings cannot be fixed more precisely than in the decade 1558–1568. Comparison with the drawing of 1554--1560 (Pl. 42b) suggests 1558 as a plausible terminus post quem. For the terminus ante we may turn to an inventory of antiquities in the palace collection made 1568 for the second Cardinal Alessandro, who occupied the palace in 1565--1585 (Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei musei d'Italia, I, p. 72). Most of the entries concern the suite decorated by Ranuccio on the second story of the right wing: the „Camera grande dell' Ill.mo Cardinale detta la Galleria“ must be at the right rear corner of the court, because there are statues „in a loggia à canto la detta camera verso il fiume“, which is the rear second-story arcade of the court (the Galleria should not be confused with the Carracci gallery in the centre of the rear wing overlooking the garden; Guglielmo della Porta's letter discussed below shows that the contstruction of the rear wing was not begun for some time after the arrival of Cardinal Alessandro in