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Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

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Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Pietro Tacca | Giambologna

modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Medium

Bronze

Tags

Dimensions

confirmed: 30 3/8 × 24 1/2 × 13 11/16 in., 113.8 lb. (77.2 × 62.2 × 34.7 cm, 51.6 kg)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, by exchange; Edith Perry Chapman Bequest; Robert Lehman Foundation Inc. Gift; Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, in memory of his father, Edward Joseph Gallagher, his mother, Ann Hay Gallagher, and his son, Edward Joseph Gallagher III; and Harris Brisbane Dick, Rogers, Pfeiffer, Louis V. Bell and Dodge Funds, 1983

Classification

Sculpture-Bronze

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Italian, Florence

Rights

Public Domain

About Pietro Tacca

1577–1640

Tacca was a skilled bronze caster and marble carver who worked in the Mannerist style of Giambologna. It was his technical and stylistic acumen in bronze, however that gained him the patronage of the Medici Dukes. He was granted the use for his lifetime of Giambologna studio by Cosimo II in 1616 and later served Ferdinand II as court artist in Spain. Comment on works: sculptor

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