Still it has notable affinities to the style of Michelangelo, especially in the youthful beauty of the features, the disposition of the hair, and the sinuous lines which govern the whole composition.

It may also be remarked that those peculiarities in the hands and feet which I have mentioned as reminding us of Donatello--a remarkable length in both extremities, owing to the elongation of the metacarpal and metatarsal bones and of the spaces dividing these from the forearm and tibia--are precisely the points which Michelangelo retained through life from his early study of Donatello's work.

We notice them particularly in the Dying Slave of the Louvre, which is certainly one of his most characteristic works.

Good judges are therefore perhaps justified in identifying this S.Giovannino, which is now in the Berlin Museum, with the statue made for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici.
The next piece which occupied Michelangelo's chisel was a Sleeping Cupid.

His patron thought this so extremely beautiful that he remarked to the sculptor: "If you were to treat it artificially, so as to make it look as though it had been dug up, I would send it to Rome; it would be accepted as an antique, and you would be able to sell it at a far higher price." Michelangelo took the hint.