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‘The big Italian’: Giambologna and his model Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 912-919
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Author:
Avery, Charles (Avery, Charles)
Subjects
art literature:
Baldinucci, Filippo
artists:
Giambologna / Zuccaro, Federico / Santi di Tito / Michelangelo / Pollaiolo, Antonio del
dates:
1550-1599
media:
Sculpture / Marbles / Bronzes / Wax sculpture / Models (representations) / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 / Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 / Christian I, Elector of Saxony, 1560–1591
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Models (people) / Sitters / Ginori, Bartolommeo di Lionardo / Ginori family / Biographies / Soldiers / Crucifixes / Portraits / Statuettes / Gifts / Commissions / Rape of the Sabines / Mars / Hercules / Prometheus / Titles of works of art / Identification
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. 1582. Marble, height (excluding the base) c.410 cm. (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
10. Prometheus, cast from a model by Giambologna. c.1590. Gilt bronze, height 23 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
2. Crucified Christ, by Giambologna. 1580s. Bronze, 33.5 by 21.5 cm (Cleveland Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of Giambologna, with his model for ‘Samson and a Philistine’, by Federigo Zuccaro. 1575. Black and red chalk, 26.1 by 188 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
4. Rape of the Sabines, by Giambologna. c.1581. Clay with traces of whitewash, height c.410 cm. (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Mars, by Giambologna. c.1581–87. Gilt bronze, height 39.4 cm. (Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden; photograph Arrigo Coppitz).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Bartolommeo di Lionardo Ginori, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, height c.250 cm. (Private collection, Florence; photo Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence).
Attributed works:
7. Portrait of Pietro di Cosimo de’ Medici, by Santi di Tito. c.1583. Canvas, 208 by 113 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Mars and Prometheus, cast from models by Giambologna. c.1587 and c.1590 respectively. Bronze, heights 39.4 cm. and 23 cm. (Both private collection; photograph courtesy Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, UK).
Attributed works:
9. Man seen from three angles, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. Fifteenth century. Stylus, pen and ink and wash on paper, 26.5 by 36 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).