
Giovanni da Bologna (1529-1608), also known as Giambologna, was a Flemish-Italian sculptor who became the most important sculptor in Italy between Michelangelo and Bernini. Born Jean Boulogne in Douai (now France), he traveled to Italy to study classical sculpture and never left, spending his career in Florence under Medici patronage.
His Rape of the Sabine Women (1583) in the Loggia dei Lanzi was the first large-scale sculpture designed to be viewed from all angles, a breakthrough in Mannerist art. His bronze Mercury, balanced on one foot atop a puff of wind, became one of the most reproduced sculptures in Western art. Small bronzes from his workshop were collected across Europe.
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