Sebastiano, apparently in good faith, made the following burlesque suggestion: "For myself, I think that the Ganymede would go there very well; one could put an aureole about him, and turn him into a S.John of the Apocalypse when he is being caught up into the heavens." The whole of one side of the Italian Renaissance, its so-called neo-paganism, is contained in this remark.
While still occupied with thoughts about S.Lorenzo, Clement ordered Michelangelo to make a receptacle for the precious vessels and reliques collected by Lorenzo the Magnificent.

It was first intended to place this chest, in the form of a ciborium, above the high altar, and to sustain it on four columns.

Eventually, the Pope resolved that it should be a sacrarium, or cabinet for holy things, and that this should stand above the middle entrance door to the church.

The chest was finished, and its contents remained there until the reign of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, when they were removed to the chapel next the old sacristy.
Another very singular idea occurred to his Holiness in the autumn of 1525.

He made Fattucci write that he wished to erect a colossal statue on the piazza of S.Lorenzo, opposite the Stufa Palace.