Regarded today as one of the best sculptors the world has ever seen, Giambologna achieved widespread fame in his own lifetime for his dynamic bronze and stone sculpture in the Mannerist style. He was an important influence on later Baroque sculpture through his pupils Adriaen de Vries (1560-1626) and Pietro Francavilla (1548-1615), as well as the Frenchman Pierre Puget (1622-94), all of whom promoted Giambologna's style throughout Northern Europe - and in Italy, he influenced both Bernini (1598-1680) and his rival Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654), as well as the Florentine bronze sculptor Pietro Tacca (1577-1640), who continued Giambologna's workshop in Florence. .... Re: Rape of the Sabine Women: The dynamic figurative composition spirals upward in a twisting figura serpentinata, with no frontal view. This is one of the unique attributes of the statue - it offers multiple viewpoints, and its impact changes with the viewer's position. Some art critics are uncomfortable with the tight verticality of the composition: our Editor is not one of them. In his opinion, this only adds to the physical drama of the event being illustrated. ...Giambologna's carving made him the uncontested master of large scale plastic art in Italy, and remains one of the greatest sculptures ever made. Fittingly, it stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi, on the Piazza della Signoria, in Florence - the city from which the Medici family never allowed him to leave, in case the Austrian or Spanish Habsburgs enticed him to practice his unique art of sculpture in Vienna or Madrid. (http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/rape-of-the-sabine-women.htm) Giambologna (1529-13 Aug. 1608) Born Jean Boulogne (and incorrectly known as Giovanni da Bologna or Giovanni Bologna); Flemish sculptor based in Italy, celebrated for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style. Born in Douai, Flanders (now in France), in 1529. Moved to Italy... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambologna) undefined

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