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Giambologna
Flemish-born Mannerist sculptor in Italy
Giambologna (1529[1] – 13 August 1608), also known as Jean de Boulogne (French), Jehan Boulongne (Flemish) and Giovanni da Bologna (Italian), was the last significant Italian Renaissance sculptor, with a large workshop producing large and small works in bronze and marble in a late Mannerist style.
Biography
Giambologna was born in Douai, Flanders (then in the Habsburg Netherlands and now in France), in 1529.
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After youthful studies in Antwerp with the architect-sculptor Jacques du Broeucq,[2] he moved to Italy in 1550 and studied in Rome, making a detailed study of the sculpture of classical antiquity. He was also much influenced by Michelangelo, but developed his own Mannerist style, with perhaps less emphasis on emotion and more emphasis on refined surfaces, cool elegance, and beauty.
Pope Pius IV gave Giambologna his first major commission, the colossal bronze Neptune and subsidiary figur