He produced a series of bronze reliefs for the Genoa University Chapel, but all of his marble works, save Samson Slaying the Philistine, are now found in what became his adopted home.
He produced a series of bronze reliefs for the Genoa University Chapel, but all of his marble works, save Samson Slaying the Philistine, are now found in what became his adopted home. Although he lost a competition to design a fountain of Neptune for the Piazza Signoria to Bartolomeo Ammanati, he ended up winning the commission to depict his patron, Cosimo I, on horseback [*] in the same square. His other works include a small Apollo, the dynamic Hercules and the Centaur, and the weightless looking bronze Mercury. His most famous work, based on Michelangelo's Victory, was designed so that the spectator must walk all the way around to see its three intertwined figures. FTP identify this sculptor of The Abduction of the Sabine Woman, commonly known by the Italianate version of his name Jean de Boulogne.
He produced a series of bronze reliefs for the Genoa University Chapel, but all of his marble works, save Samson Slaying the Philistine, are now found in what became his adopted home.
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