BANDINELLI, Baccio
(b. 1493, Firenze, d. 1560, Firenze)

Jupiter seated

1547-48
Marble, height 260 cm
Boboli Gardens, Florence

With the statuary, Bandinelli set himself ambitious goals that he was hard put to achieve. Most turned out badly, and several were hastily converted by simple changes in their attributes into equivalent figures from Classical mythology, for display elsewhere. For example, a colossal figure of God the Father in Benediction for the Santa Croce, Florence became Jupiter in the Boboli Gardens.




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