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The Captured Turk
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The Captured Turk

17th century

Medium

Pearwood

Tags

Dimensions

Height: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1905

Classification

Sculpture

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