AMMANATI, Bartolomeo
(b. 1511, Settignano, d. 1592, Firenze)

Falcon

c. 1567
Bronze, 40 x 20 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

This falcon is one of the bronze birds Giambologna and Ammanati together produced for the grotto of the Medici garden at Castello. The grotto can be regarded as a kind of collection, one conceived on analogy with the 'studiolo' or 'Kunstkammer.'