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Hecules and the Centaur
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I copied and pasted all 3 photos I took of this famous sculpture so you could see all the angles of this work of art. It is amazing the detail they put into carving this works of art. It really amazed me!
Giovanni Bologna (Giambologna or Fean Boulogne), Flemish-born Italian sculptor. He was the greatest sculptor of the age of Mannerism and for about two centuries after his death his reputation was second only to that of Michelangelo.
In about 1550 he went to Italy to study and spent 2 years in Rome. On the way back he stopped in Florence and was based there for the rest of his life. The work that made his name, however, was for Bologna - the Fountain of Neptune (1563-66), with its impressive nude figure of Neptune which he had designed for a similar fountain in Florence (Ammanati defeated him in the competition). Even before working on the fountain in Bologna, however, Giambologna had begun in Florence the first of a series of celebrated marble groups that in their mastery of complex twisting poses mark one of the high-points of Mannerist art: Samson Slaying a Philistine (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, c. 1561-62); Florence Triumphant over Pisa (Bargello, Florence, completed 1575); The Rape of a Sabine (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. 1581-82); Hercules and the Centaur (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, 1594-1600).
I was thrilled to see such great and historic works of art. |
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Hi Julie,
A very good capture of this impressive sculpture! Amazing that you got no comments att all on your picture!
Never mind, keep shooting.
Hendrik
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