 During the half year he spent in Florence, he worked on two small statues, a child "St. John the Baptist" and a sleeping "Cupid".According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted "St. John the Baptist", asked that Michelangelo "fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried" so he could "send it to Rome ... pass [it off as] an ancient work and ... sell it much better.