Study for a Sculpture of Neptune
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk (recto); fragment of a design in black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 7 11/16 in. (41.5 x 19.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Slater Gift, 2010
Accession Number
2010.84
Tags
About the Artist
Giambologna · 1529–1608
Born and trained in Flanders (Douai, his birthplace, is now in France but was once in Flanders), Giambologna traveled to Italy in 1550 to study Classical and Renaissance sculpture. There, he became court sculptor of the Medici Dukes. He was famed for compositional sophistication, sensuous, tactile treatment of human body, and sheer technical virtuosity. He was extremely influential because the Med...