"Sabine Women" after Giambologna

"The Abuduction of the Sabine Women" Italian alabaster figure after Giambologna c1720.

Early 18^th Century Italian alabaster figure after Giambologna

Gimabologna or Giovanni da Bologna (Jean Boulogne) was French, born in Douai around 1529, dying in Florence in 1608. He was one of the most important sculptors of both his generation and the later Renaissance. He was a sculptor of figures and groups, working first in the studio of Jacques Du Broeucq in Mons, and then went to study in Italy, where he spent two years in Rome, probably under the direction of Michelangelo. At the period when he was making the fountain of Neptune in Piazza Nettuno in Bologna, he made several statuettes of Mercury, culminating in that sent to the Emperor Maximilian IInd and the ‘Medici Mercury’ (now in the Barghello, Florence), two pieces that display a remarkable lightness and sense of movement.

820 height