 Although relations were perhaps always rather tense between the "Magnifico" and his young cousins and wards, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and his brother Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, it may have been politic to commission a work that glorified the older Lorenzo, as some interpretations have it.There may be a deliberate ambiguity as to which Lorenzo was intended to be evoked.In later years hostility between the two branches of the family became overt.