They were severally placed in Florence, Naples, and Montepulciano.

For the cathedral of Prato he executed bas-reliefs of dancing boys; a similar series, intended for the balustrades of the organ in S.Maria del Fiore, is now preserved in the Bargello museum.

The exultation of movement has never been expressed in stone with more fidelity to the strict rules of plastic art.

For his friend and patron, Cosimo de' Medici, he cast in bronze the group of "Judith and Holofernes"-- a work that illustrates the clumsiness of realistic treatment, and deserves to be remembered chiefly for its strange fortunes.

When the Medici fled from Florence in 1494, their palace was sacked; the new republic took possession of Donatello's "Judith," and placed it on a pedestal before the gate of the Palazzo Vecchio, with this inscription, ominous to would-be despots: _Exemplum salutis publicae cives posuere.MCCCCXCV_.It now stands near Cellini's "Perseus" under the Loggia de' Lanzi.