In his left hand he holds a bunch of grapes, which a merry and alert little satyr at his feet furtively enjoys.

He appears to be about seven years old, and the Bacchus eighteen.( 25) The said Messer Iacopo desired also that he would carve him a little Cupid.( 26) Both of these works may still be seen in the house of Messer Giuliano and Messer Paolo Galli, courteous and worthy gentlemen, with whom Michael Angelo has always retained a real and cordial friendship.
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A little afterwards, at the request of the Cardinal de San Dionigi (called the Cardinal Rovano), he carved from a block of marble that marvellous statue of our Lady, which is now in the church of the Madonna della Febbre;( 27) although at first it was placed in the chapel of the King of France in the Church of Santa Petronilla, near to the Sacristy of Saint Peter's, formerly, according to some, a temple of Mars; this church was destroyed by Bramante for the sake of his design for the new Saint Peter's.

The Madonna is seated on the stone upon which the Cross was erected, with her dead son on her lap.

He is of so great and so rare a beauty, that no one beholds it but is moved to pity.