Soon after his magnanimous gesture Pope Julius II, worn out by excruciating pain from stone in the bladder, died. Bramante, crippled with gout in the hands, lost heart and in 1514 followed his master to the grave. At his death the four great piers were complete up to the cornice, and the connecting arches, now adorne with sunk panels in the Romand fashion, were in place. The form of the piers was never to be substantially altered. It remained the governing factor of every subsequent plan of St Peter's, including the final and actual one. Futhermore, the walls of the projecting choir (the Tribune di San Piero) were completed on Nicholas V and Rossellino's foundations; and vaulting was begun on the south transept, where until very lately St Petronilla's chapel had stood.