A minute of the Signory dated November 6, 1508, informs us that the bronze David, weighing about 800 pounds, had been "packed in the name of God," and sent to Signa on its way to Leghorn.
Florimond Robertet placed it in the courtyard of his chateau of Bury, near Blois.

It remained there for more than a hundred years, then it was removed to the chateau of Villeroy, and disappeared no one knows whither.
On April 24, 1503, the Consuls of the Arte della Lana and the Operai of the Duomo ordered Michael Angelo to carve out of Carrara marble twelve Apostles, each four and a quarter cubits high, to be placed inside the church.

One was to be finished each year, the Operai paying all expenses, including the cost of living for the sculptor and his assistants, and paying him two golden florins a month.

They built a house and workshops for him in the Borgo Pinti; it was designed by Il Cronaca.

Michael Angelo lived there rent free until it was evident that the contract could not be carried out.