Bacchus
by GIAMBOLOGNA, Bronze
For half a century Giambologna dominated Florentine sculpture, carving an ever more impressive series of statue groups in marble. In addition, he produced several extraordinary bronze statues, among them Bacchus (1560-61).
Giambologna adopted for his god of wine a new physical type, older, more muscular and generally more heroic than the Bacchuses earlier Renaissance sculptors had produced.