During November or December his pension of fifty crowns a month was renewed, the Pope's agent in Florence being Battista Figiovanni, Prior of San Lorenzo.
In 1528 a block of marble had been assigned to Michael Angelo, from which he determined to extract a heroic group of Hercules and Cacus.

There is a small wax model of this composition at South Kensington, attributed to Michael Angelo, which may be for this design.

The Medici Government handed over the blocks to the craven Baccio Bandinelli, who produced the horrible work, representing the same subject, now in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.
The Leda for the Duke of Ferrara,( 141) but presented by Michael Angelo to his pupil Mini, was painted during the siege.

It was probably a design from some antique gem in the Duke's cabinet.

The original, and a copy by Benedetto Bene, were taken to Paris by Antonio Mini, where they passed into the possession of the King.