Giambologna

Rape of the Sabines — Mannerist sculpture

The last great sculptor of the Renaissance and the bridge to the Baroque. The Rape of the Sabine Women — three intertwined figures spiraling upward, designed to be seen from every angle — is the most ambitious multi-figure sculpture since antiquity. His Mercury became the emblem of elegance itself.

Key works

• Rape of the Sabine Women1583— Three figures, one upward spiral — visible from every angle
  Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
• Mercury~1580— The god in flight — weightless bronze
  Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

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