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  Giambologna Online
Giambologna at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Giambologna in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
Giambologna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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  Queensland Art Gallery - Giambologna
Giambologna was born Jean Bologne in Douai, Flanders, but spent most of his adult life in Florence, where he enjoyed the artistic patronage of the wealthy and powerful Medici family.
The sculpture is characteristic of Giambologna's style, which achieves a balance between the classical geometry of the Renaissance and the sense of spiralling movement associated with the mannerist art of which he was an early exponent.
From the point of view of composition and perspective, the scene is rigorously planned, with Christ tied to a central column and flanked by two guards on either side.
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 Giambologna (1529 - 1608) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Also called Jean Boulogne, Giambologna hailed from Douai, Belgium.
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Guida artistica di Firenze - Jean de Boulogne detto Giambologna
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  Giambologna (1529 - 1608) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
He moved to Italy and soon became one of the most important sculptors of the second half of the 16th century.
Giambologna designed fountains and other large projects for Italian aristocrats including the Medici.
Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana - Giambologna
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  Biography
Giambologna worked extensively for the Medici and his monument to Duke Cosimo I (1587-95) was the first equestrian statue made in Florence and an immensely influential design, becoming the pattern for similar statues all over Europe (for example that of Charles I by Hubert Le Sueur at Charing Cross in London).
Giambologna's similar statue to Henry IV of France, formerly on the Pont Neuf in Paris, has been destroyed.
Giambologna was as happy working on a small scale as in a monumental vein.
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  Giambologna Summary
Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608) was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.
Giambologna made detailed study of the sculpture of classical antiquity.
The quality of the monkey in the Louvre is also up for debate; the form is not lifelike, the fur is not realistic and the pose does not match the poses of the monkeys in the Uffizi drawing, which after all, is the only evidence for the monkeys being in the niches.
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Giambologna byl narozen v Douai, Flanders (nyní v Belgii).
Giambologna strávil jeho nejproduktivnější roky v Florencee, kde jeho práce byla hodně sponzorována Medici rodinou.
Giambologna byl důležitý vliv na takové pozdnější umělce jak Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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 Giambologna   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608) was a sculptor who best known for his marble statuary and works in bronze.
Giambologna was born in Douai, Flanders (now in France).
Giambologna was an important influence on such later artists as Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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 Giambologna
Giambologna (pseudonimo di Jean de Boulogne, Douai 1529 - Firenze 1608) scultore fiammingo attivo in Italia.
Al ritorno dal viaggio romano, Giambologna si fermò a Firenze, dove venne ospitato dal mecenate fiorentino Bernardo Vecchietti.
Il Giambologna occupa un posto di rilievo nella storia della scultura europea per aver gettato un ponte fra Rinascimento e Barocco, fra l'opera di Michelangelo e quella del Bernini.
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 Giambologna:Gods and Heroes Exhibition @ Bargello Museum,Florence
This is the first exhibition that Italy dedicates to Giambologna, as well as the first after the one held in Vienna and London in 1978.
The introductory essay of the catalogue will present a new monographic study on Giambologna and will be followed by scientific contributions dedicated to the most significant aspects and problems of the sculptor’s work, including his extraordinary and uninterrupted fortune among collectors.
Despite the possibilities afforded by Giambologna's participation in Italian Renaissance court life, he was illiterate and never fully mastered the Italian language.
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 GIAMBOLOGNA
Also called Giovanni da Bologna, Giambologna remained in Italy for the rest of his life, principally in Florence.
Rape of the Sabine Woman (1583, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence), considered his masterpiece, is a complex three-figure work in marble, a compact yet light group spiraling upward from a crouching to a standing to an airborne figure.
Giambologna was the most successful sculptor of his age, creating an international Mannerist style that directly influenced succeeding baroque sculpture, particularly the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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 Price Tower Arts Center - Past Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The exhibition, Giambologna: Master Sculptor of the Renaissance, is drawn from the private collection of Michael Hall, New York, and surveys the career of a man that though often overlooked, is one of the most influential artists of the Italian Renaissance, Giambologna.
Giambologna's unique use of compositional balance in sculpture became a pivotal point in art history and a great influence on later sculptors.
The exhibition Giambologna: Master Sculptor of the Renaissance is open to the public from October 22, 2004 to January 9, 2005.
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 The CODART List - Giambologna: gli dei, gli eroi: genesi e fortuna di uno stile europeo nella scultura (Giambologna: ...
Giambologna: gli dei, gli eroi: genesi e fortuna di uno stile europeo nella scultura (Giambologna: the gods, the heroes: the origins and fortune of a European style in sculpture)
Giambologna, also known as Giovanni da Bologna, was born in Douai, in French Flanders, between 1524 and 1529, as Jean Boulogne.
E poi ancora, il Giambologna scultore dei grandi monumenti equestri all’eroica - quelli ai granduchi Cosimo I e Ferdinando I, a Firenze – eredi della illustre tradizione rinascimentale di Donatello e Verrocchio e destinati a servire da modello ai monarchi di tutta Europa, attraverso la diffusione dei bronzetti che in scala ridotta ne traducevano l’invenzione.
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 Giambologna   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608) was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.
Giambologna became well known for the fine sense of action and movement.
Small bronze reductions of many of his sculptures were prized by connoisseurs at the time and ever since, for Giambologna's reputation has never suffered eclipse.
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 InfoDense - Web - Giambologna
Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and...
Giambologna then revised the scheme, this time with a third figure, in two wax...
Portrait of Sculptor Giambologna (Hendrick Goltzius) Rape of the Sabines...
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 Giambologna
Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (California Studies in the History of...
Giambologna, 1529-1608: Sculptor to the Medici : an exhibition organised by the Arts...
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 Il Sole 24 ORE.com - Gli dei e gli eroi a Firenze con Giambologna
”Giambologna fu dopo Michelangelo, il massimo scultore del suo secolo e anche se le sue opere furono scolpite o gettate in bronzo a Firenze e per Firenze, i bronzetti prodotti dalla sua bottega, trasformarono il suo stile in un idioma universale”.
Si scoprono al visitatore i meravigliosi bozzetti, grazie ai quali Giambologna progetta le sue opere maestose e le sue fontane arricchite di figure di dei ed eroi.
E infatti a quella statua si ispirano gli allievi del Giambologna nelle loro più significative imprese europee: Pietro Francavilla a Parigi per il monumento di Enrico IV di Francia, Pietro Tacca a Madrid, per le statue equestri dei re di Spagna Filippo III e Filippo IV.
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 Home|Exhibitions|GIAMBOLOGNA
It is thanks to the patronage and connoisseurship of the Emperor Rudolf II that the Kunsthistorisches Museum now holds some of the artist’s most beautiful masterpieces, and — considering his importance for the collection — one might call Giambologna the “Bruegel of the Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts”.
In addition, it is the first time ever that some of Giambologna’s monumental marble and bronze statues are shown in Vienna.
The exhibition in Vienna focuses on Giambologna’s ideal image of man and his search for the perfect pose.
www.kunsthistorischesmuseum.at /staticE/page3424.html   (362 words)

  
 ARTMUSEUM.CZ     Giambologna
Giambologna je považován za jednoho z nejlepších manýristických sochařů, je oceňován hlavně pro jeho přístup k zachycení elegantních póz a dynamických kompozicí.
Giambologna byl rovněž velmi úspěšným obchodníkem, po tom, co vypozoroval, jaké jeho bronzové sochy jsou nejvíce obdivovány, začal ve své dílně vyrábět jejich zmenšené repliky.
Svým sochařským stylem Giambologna ovlivnil mnohé mladší sochaře, mezi kterými vynikl například Gianlorenzo Bernini.
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 Giambologna - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giambologna's "La Archetectura" in the Bargelo, Florence Giambologna was born in Douai, Flanders (now in Belgium).
Giambologna made detailed study of the sculpture of Classical_antiquity.
GiamBologna was an important influence on such later artists as Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini.
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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.
Among his most famous works are: the winged Mercury (of which he actually did multiple versions), poised on one foot, supported by a zephyr, several depictions of Venus, Florence defeating Pisa, the three intertwined figures of The Rape of the Sabine Women (1574-82) and Hercules beating the Centaur Nessus (1599),
For the grotto of the Villa Medicea of Castello he sculpted a series of studies of individual animals, from life, which may now be viewed at the Bargello.
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 Giambologna - Glasgledius   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was also much influenced by Michelangelo, but developed his own Mannerist style, with perhaps less emphasis on emotion and more emphasis on beauty than the older master.
Giambologna spent his most productive years in Florence, where his work was much patronized by the Medici family.
Other especially notable works include several depictions of Venus, "Florence defeating Pisa", "The Rape of the Sabines", the equestrian statue of Cosimo I in Florence, and the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna.
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 Bookfinder.US: Giambologna
Although the chapel itself was destroyed during the Napoleonic period, its dazzling bronzes of Virtues and angel-putti and a Passion cycle in relief have survived.
Giambologna (1529-1608), the quick, prolific court sculptor to Medici dukes, later a protege of Roman emperors and popes, is not well-known today though he rated a profile in Vasari's Lives.
Born Jean Boulogne in what is now northern France, he migrated to Italy where he tried to break the impasse of Cellini's inbred mannerism with a sometimes glib style that drew on his earthy Flemish roots as much as it did on Greco-Roman antiques.
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 The Frick Collection: Education: School Partnerships
The artist known as Giovanni Bologna or Giambologna (1529-1608) was born Jean Boulogne in Flanders (modern-day Belgium) and left for Rome at twenty to study art.
Giambologna was able to produce his sculptures in such great numbers by means of an efficient workshop of specialized assistants, many of whom continued to disseminate his style after his death.
Giambologna probably first sculpted this subject in about 1575 for Florentine art patrons, the Salviati brothers, and it became exceptionally popular.
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 Giovanni Bologna, called Giambologna: Triton (14.40.689) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With its supple modeling and vigorous chasing, the present bronze is the earliest example of this composition to survive and should be dated to the artist's early maturity, in the 1560s, shortly after he arrived in Florence from his native Flanders.
Giambologna was renowned for his skill in casting bronze, the medium in which most of his work (ranging in scale from minute to monumental) was executed.
One of Giambologna's own casts of the Triton, presumably fairly large like this example, was sent to France along with a cast of his celebrated Mercury.
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 Creative Spotlite - Art Instruction Books: Artists / A-Z: Giambologna   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giambologna, 1529-1608: Sculptor to the Medici : an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,...
Giambologna: An exhibition of sculpture by the master and his followers, from the collection of Michael Hall, Esq.
Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (California Studies in the History of Art)
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 Home|Exhibitions|GIAMBOLOGNA
It is thanks to the patronage and connoisseurship of the Emperor Rudolf II that the Kunsthistorisches Museum now holds some of the artist’s most beautiful masterpieces, and — considering his importance for the collection — one might call Giambologna the “Bruegel of the Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts”.
In addition, it is the first time ever that some of Giambologna’s monumental marble and bronze statues are shown in Vienna.
The exhibition in Vienna focuses on Giambologna’s ideal image of man and his search for the perfect pose.
www.khm.at /staticE/page3424.html   (362 words)

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