He left Florence in 1528, after the Medici expulsion, and, like Leonardo, took service with Francis the First.

He died at the age of eighty.
I had an hour and more exactly opposite the Rustici group, on the same level, while waiting for the Scoppio del Carro, and I find it easy to believe that Leonardo himself had a hand in the work.

The figure of the Baptist is superb, the attitude of his listeners masterly..