In 1498 the Cardinal Jaen Bilhéres de Lagraulas of France arrived in Italy with the court of Charles VIII, the king of France, who commissioned to the young Michelangelo to curve a marble group. The work would last a year for a total cost of four hundred and fifty gold ducats, as per contract. The Cardinal, obsessed with “greatness”, wanted to have a very prestigious funeral monument never done before. According to the project, the sculptural group would be placed in the chapel …
