Agostino di Duccio

In 1441, he was accused of stealing precious materials from a Florentine monastery and was banished from his native city as a result.

[1] The decorations were supposed to be a sort of medieval encyclopedia, with reliefs of zodiacal and other allegorical and mythological figures.

Described as nine braccia (over 5 metres) long, of moderate quality ('bianco ordinario') and 'rather shallow', its original maximum dimensions are otherwise unknown, but from the resulting statue the block must have been almost 2.0m wide and 1.1m deep, so must have been over 20 tons in weight.

The block, now known as il gigante (the giant), was further roughed out and 'spoiled' in 1476–7 by Rossellino, and then sat for 24 years being cotto ('cooked' by the weather) in the Duomo yard, until Michelangelo won a new commission to carve a David, completed in 1504.

[citation needed] In 1473 Agostino designed the outer facade of the Porta di San Pietro in the city walls of Perugia,[2] in a style influenced by Leone Battista Alberti.