Some of the works at San Miniato still remain.
Vauban is said to have found them of such interest that he surveyed and measured them.

During this sad time Michael Angelo laboured in secret at the tombs of the Medici.

The sad and despairing thoughts of the artist are evident in the work he produced.

No one can enter that solemn sacristy without feeling the spirit of deepest sadness brooding over all--Il Penseroso, and the figures of Day and of Night, of Morning and of Evening.
The city fell in August 1530.

Marco Dandolo, of Venice, when he heard of it, exclaimed aloud, "Baglioni has put upon his head the cap of the biggest traitor upon record." The prominent citizens who escaped, including Michael Angelo, were outlawed and their property confiscated.
Many who remained in the city were imprisoned, tortured, and beheaded.
Michael Angelo hid himself, the Senator Filippo Buonarroti says, in the bell-tower of San Nicolo beyond Arno.( 140) After the fury was over and Clement's anger abated, Michael Angelo, hearing a message of peace from the Pope, came forth from his hiding-place and resumed work on the statues at San Lorenzo, moved thereto more by fear of the Pope than by love of the Medici.