He and his followers devised elegant elongated examples of the "figura serpentinata", often of two intertwined figures, that were interesting from all angles.
Majhne figure iz brona za kabinetne zbiralce, pogosto mitološke gole figure, so bile priljubljena oblika renesanse, s katerimi se je Giambologna, originalno flamska, toda temelječa v Firencah, odlikoval v kasnejšem delu stoletja, prav tako pa ustvarjal tudi skulpture v naravni velikosti, od katerih sta dve na trgu Piazza della Signoria.