Giambologna-Ratto delle Sabine

Terra cruda, plaster cast model

Accademia Florenz

From this model, Giambologna created the marble

sculpture you can admire in Piazza della Signoria under

the Loggia dei Lanzi. What impacts the observer the most

is the fact that the whole group was carved from a single

block of marble, and is acknowledged as Giambologna’s