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Newly restored works at the Academy Gallery Giambologna: Gods and heroes
[Susan Glasspool]
This exhibition - the first to be dedicated to Giambologna in Italy - presents all the latest studies on this important sculptor who lived and worked in Italy after Michelangelo and before Bernini. These new studies help us to better understand his life and artistic personality. The show concentrates on three aspects of Giambologna’s profane sculpture: his models and sketches, nude figures of mythological subjects and equestrian monuments. These “inventions” brought him great success and were widely imitated in all the great Courts in Europe. A section is also dedicated to the work Giambologna was commissioned to carry out for the Grand Duke Francesco de’ Medici, the sculptor’s most important sponsor.
A selection of the finest works signed by the artist - on loan from museums from all over the world - are on display, including the Venus Cesarini, bronzes from the Kunstkammer in Vienna and the Dresden Museums, the Architecture from Boston, and terracotta mock-ups from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, etc.
The exhibition, curated by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, director of the Bargello, and Dimitrios Zikos, has been arranged in the new display area on the ground floor and is followed by a tour of the other monumental works by Giambologna in the museum, like the Ocean from the Boboli Gardens, the Cortesi Bacchus, the Venus from Villa
La Petraia and the Triumph of Florence over Pisa. The itinerary ends on the second floor with a display of some of the finest bronze models for equestrian monuments carried out by the artist or his assistants.
The exhibition continues outside the Museum as, thanks again to the Medicis, famous monumental creations by this sculptor can be found in many suggestive settings in the city.
The catalogue offers a new monographic study on Giambologna, together with scientific contributions dedicated to the most important aspects and problems linked to this artist’s work, including his popularity among collectors.
Giambologna: Gods and heroes
The birth and development of a European style of sculpture
National Museum of the Bargello
Via del Proconsolo, 4
Info: tel. 055.2388606-055.290383
Hours: 8.30-13.50
Closed 1st-3rd-5th Sunday and 2nd-4th Monday of month
Entrance: € 7,00 /5,00 (including museum)
From March 1st to June 15th 2006
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