Michelangelo's Lorenze de Medici rests in a niche above the Duke's tomb in the Medici chapel in S. Lorenzo, Florence. He is shown wearing pseudo-Roman armour, in reference to the ceremony of 1513 granting him Roman citizenship. The money-box on which his elbow rests may relate to the Medici profession of banking. See Roberta J.M. Olson Italian Renaissance Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London 1992, pp.171 - 175. Opposite the tomb of Lorenzo in the chapel is the tomb of Giuliano de Medici, also surmounted by a sculpted marble figure of its subject. That Lorenzo is the more commonly produced reduction of the two undoubtedly lies not in any qualitative difference, but in the greater fame and appeal of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Barbedienne, Ferdinand (1810 - 1892). By far the most prominent Parisian bronze founder of the 19th century, Barbedienne's association with Achille Collas, who had developed a method of producing reductions of sculpture in bronze, in 1839, revolutionized bronze production. Established in 1847 the Barbedienne factory soon employed 300 men and rapidly achieved renown for both the quantity and the quality of its output.