He wished to decorate the Piccolomini Chapel in the Duomo of Siena with fifteen statues of male saints.

A contract was signed on June 5, by which Michelangelo agreed to complete these figures within the space of three years.

One of them, a S.Francis, had been already begun by Piero Torrigiano; and this, we have some reason to believe, was finished by the master's hand.

Accounts differ about his share in the remaining fourteen statues; but the matter is of no great moment, seeing that the style of the work is conventional, and the scale of the figures disagreeably squat and dumpy.

It seems almost impossible that these ecclesiastical and tame pieces should have been produced at the same time as the David by the same hand.