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The Rape of the Sabine Women is a Mannerist marble sculpture created by the Flemish-Italian artist Giambologna, completed in 1583. Carved from a single massive block of marble, the work depicts three figures intertwined in a upward-spiraling composition known as a figura serpentinata. Originally int...
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Major Mannerist marble, admired for spiral composition and technical bravura, despite troubling subject and formal showmanship.
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Mercury is a bronze sculpture by the Flemish-born Italian artist Giambologna, created in the late 16th century during the Mannerist period. The statue depicts the Roman messenger god in a dynamic, upward-thrusting pose, balancing lightly on the breath of a Zephyr represented by a small face at the b...
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Elegant Mannerist bronze, famous for weightless balance and replication, but less profound than Giambologna's great marble group.
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