The armour of the warrior Giuliano is magnificently designed, and must have been founded upon some antique example.

The grotesque upon the breastplate is not unlike a grotesque in a similar place upon an antique marble bust in the Naples Museum.

The helmeted Lorenzo, Il Penseroso, broods over what might have been, had he acted his part in Florence.

Under his elbow rests a box of peculiar design, possibly the representation of a political instrument used in the offices of his family's unwise government.

The unfinished head of Day is an example of how the master appears to complete his work from the first stroke of his chisel.