Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Florence Triumphant over Pisa
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
Giambologna (Flemish sculptor, 1529-1608)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via del Proconsolo, 4
GPS:
43.770423 11.257947
Date:
ca. 1565-1575 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
262 cm (height)
Description:
The death of Michelangelo in 1564 led to the Medici being given by his heir the nearly finished group of Victory that had remained locked up in his studio ever since he had left Florence in 1534. Furthermore, the wedding of Prince Francesco de’ Medici to Joanna of Austria in the following year required grandiose decorations for the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The idea was thus conceived of commissioning Giambologna to create an allegorical group as a pair to Michelangelo’s Victory; its subject was to be politically relevant, Florence Triumphant over Pisa. Giambologna was thereby led to reconsider the problem of uniting two figures in an action group. A full-scale working model in plaster (Florence, Accademia) was ready in time to be painted white to resemble marble and exhibited at the wedding. A marble version (Florence, Bargello) was carved considerably later (1575), and then largely by his assistant, Pietro Francavilla. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GB-MB-FTP-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Florence Triumphant over Pisa