Currently held in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, this group was first recorded in 1347 as being situated in the Loggia Senatoria, (also on the Capitol). It was not particularly admired until the late Renaissance, when Michelangelo took notice of it and praised it highly. It was heavily restored by the Milanese sculptor Ruggiero Bescapè in 1594, but has rarely been copied in stone because of the technical difficulties inherrent in producing slender extremities which must nevertheless bear weight. The group is most noted for its powerful movement and its underlying sense of pathos.