Giuliano de' Medici
Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith, and first apprenticed in his shop. As a boy, he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici, a sculptor friend of Leonardo da Vinci. Among his earliest works was a "Saint Jerome" in wax, made for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by John Pope-Hennessy.