* Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, sculptor

Giambologna was born in Douai, Flanders ( now in France ).

The Italian Benvenuto Cellini and Flemish born Giambologna were the style's chief representatives in sculpture.

* October 26-Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna ( born 1557 )

On the far right is the manneristic group Rape of the Sabine Women by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna.

Giambologna became well known for a fine sense of action and movement, and a refined, differentiated surface finish.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

A few new designs had been proposed in later years but the models ( of Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Giovanni de ' Medici with Alessandro Pieroni and Giambologna ) were not accepted.

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The extraordinary contribution of academics, including Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco da Sangallo, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Giambologna, increased the prestige of this institution.

Pope Pius IV gave Giambologna his first major commission, the colossal bronze Neptune and subsidiary figures for the Fountain of Neptune ( the base designed by Tommaso Laureti, 1566 ) in Bologna.

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* Giambologna ( Italian, 1529 – 1608 ) Hugely influential Mannerist sculptor

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Notable among the chapels is the fifth ( aligned to nave axis ), which has a crucifix ( 1594 – 8 ) by Giambologna for his tomb, with statues of the " Active and Contemplative Lives " by his pupil Francavilla, saints and angels by Pietro Tacca, and murals by Bernardino Poccetti.

The sculpture by Giambologna ( 1579 – 1583 ) that was reinterpreted as expressing this theme depicts three figures ( a man lifting a woman into the air while a second man crouches ) and was carved from a single block of marble.

Alessandro Vittoria ( 1525 – 1608 ) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, " one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style " and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.

File: Giambologna raptodasabina. jpg | Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women, 1583, Florence, Italy, 13 ' 6 " high, marble

** Giambologna, Italian sculptor ( d. 1608 )

The obelisks rest on bronze tortoises, made in 1608 by the sculptor Giambologna.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

He worked between 1563 and 1565 on the original block of marble ( chosen by Bandinelli ), together with his assistants, among which Giambologna.

In front of the Palace is the Monument to Grand Duke Ferdinando I de ' Medici ( 1595 ), by Pietro Francavilla, following a design of Giambologna.

Heracles and Nessus by Giambologna, ( 1599 ), Florence.

He was also patron to some of the best contemporary artists, who mainly produced new works in the Northern Mannerist style, such as Bartholomeus Spranger, Hans von Aachen, Giambologna, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Aegidius Sadeler, Roelant Savery, and Adrian de Vries, as well as commissioning works from Italians like Veronese.

Giambologna was an important influence on later sculptors through his pupils Adriaen de Vries and Pietro Francavilla who left his atelier for Paris in 1601, as well as Pierre Puget who spread Giambologna's influence throughout Northern Europe, and in Italy on Pietro Tacca, who assumed Giambologna's workshop in Florence, and in Rome on Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi.

The bronze equestrian statue of Henry IV was commissioned from Giambologna under the orders of Marie de Medici, Henry's widow and Regent of France, in 1614.

According to one explanation, the badge is referred to as " Jimmy " because the image of Mercury was based on the late mediaeval bronze statue by the Italian sculptor Giambologna, and shortening over time reduced the name Giambologna to " Jimmy ".

Initially formed by clipped edges and greens, it was later formalized by rebuilding in stone decorated with statues based on Roman myths such as the Fountain of the Ocean sculpted by Giambologna, then transferred to another location within the same garden.

He combined the vivacity and richness of Carpeaux, for " he was, technically, one of the most distinguished modellers of his time ", with the academic insistence on harmonious outlines and scholarly familiarity with the work of Giambologna and others of Duret.

" Giambologna, 1529-1608: sculptor to the Medici: an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain etc.

The church of San Pietro Apostolo in Giglio Castello ( Giglio castle ) has an ivory crucifix attributed to the sculptor Giambologna.

He travelled to Florence, where, as early as 1581, he is documented working in the studio of the master Mannerist sculptor Giambologna, a Northerner like himself, and the greatest influence on his mature work.

Small bronze figures for collector's cabinets, often mythological subjects with nudes, were a popular Renaissance form at which Giambologna, originally Flemish but based in Florence, excelled in the later part of the century, also creating life-size sculptures, of which two joined the collection in the Piazza della Signoria.

Giambologna provided as well as many sculptures for garden grottos and fountains in the Boboli Gardens of Florence and at Pratolino, and the bronze doors of the cathedral of Pisa.

His main achievements include the project for the new city of Livorno, the decoration of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens with the famous grotto, as well as the Parco di Pratolino of which little remains today, except for a giant sculpture by Giambologna, representing the Colossus of the Apennines.

Hercules killing Centaur Nessus ( marble by Giambologna, Florence )

The marble pedestal, also by Giambologna, represents bronze bas-reliefs with the same theme.

The bronze crucifix on the main altar is by Giambologna ( 16th century ).

At the point where the bridge crosses the Île de la Cité, there stands a bronze equestrian statue of King Henry IV of France, originally commissioned from Giambologna under the orders of Marie de Médicis, Henri ’ s widow and Regent of France, in 1614.

The massive bronze main doors were made in the workshops of Giambologna, replacing the original doors destroyed in a fire in 1595.

The delicate bronze sculptures were made by Giambologna and Bartolomeo Ammanati.

* The " bronze equestrian statue of Cosimo I " by Giambologna ( 1594 )

" Florentine bronze " bears no relation to the 16th century bronze reductions of full-scale sculptures that were made in Florence after models by Giambologna and other Mannerist sculptors, to satisfy a collectors ' market.