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Attribution of a Venus discovered in a French scrapyard is highly contested—this book defends the ascription

A nude female bronze, here identified as Giambologna’s Venus, was rediscovered in a French scrapyard in the 1960s © Dr. Georg Steinmetzer From the title on its cover, one would be forgiven for thinking that this weighty book is a general introduction to the life and work of Giambologna (1529-1608), the greatest sculptor working in Italy between Michelangelo and Bernini. It is, however, essentially a consideration of a particular gift (1598-1600) from Ferdinando I de’ Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Henri IV of France of six large garden statues, cast in bronze from the master’s models. Indeed, at its heart is an even more specific and detailed case study of just one of them, a statue of a seated Venus. A nude female bronze, here identified as Giambologna’s Venus, was rediscovered in a French scrapyard in the 1960s. This remarkable

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