GIAMBOLOGNA
(b. 1529, Douai, d. 1608, Firenze)

Bacchus

1560-61
Bronze
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

For half a century Giambologna dominated Florentine sculpture, carving an ever more impressive series of statue groups in marble. In addition, he produced several extraordinary bronze statues, among them Bacchus (1560-61).

Giambologna adopted for his god of wine a new physical type, older, more muscular and generally more heroic than the Bacchuses earlier Renaissance sculptors had produced.