Its effect in that position may be well seen, appropriately enough, in a picture by the same Piero di Cosimo (No.

895), in the National Gallery, where the Piazza della Signoria forms the background to a portrait of a man in armour.

Il Cronaca, Antonio da San Gallo, Baccio d'Agnolo, Bernardo della Cecca, and Michael Angelo were associated in the task of transporting the giant from the workshop near the Duomo to the Piazza della Signoria.

It was encased in planks and suspended upright from great beams.

"On May 14, 1504, the marble giant was dragged from the Opera.