Ferdinando Tacca
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Ferdinando Tacca (1619-1686) was a Florentine sculptor, son and student of the prolific Pietro Tacca. He continued his father's work on bronze equestrian monuments and created the elaborate bronze decorations for the Chapel of the Princes in the Medici Chapels at San Lorenzo, Florence.
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About Ferdinando Tacca
Tacca created bronze decorations for the Medici Chapel of the Princes at San Lorenzo, Florence. He continued the tradition of monumental bronze casting established by his father Pietro Tacca and Giambologna.
Tacca was born in 1619 and died in 1686, working as a sculptor in Florence.
His Bireno and Olimpia, dated 1640, is held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
His father was Pietro Tacca, whose tradition of monumental bronze casting Ferdinando continued at the Medici court.
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