 Michelangelo left the security of the Medici court and returned to his father's house.In the following months he carved a polychrome wooden "Crucifix" (1493), as a gift to the prior of the Florentine church of Santo Spirito, which had allowed him to do some anatomical studies of the corpses from the church's hospital.This was the first of several instances during his career that Michelangelo studied anatomy by dissecting cadavers.