Giambologna

British  

/ dʒamboˈlɔŋa /

noun

1. original name Giovanni da Bologna or Jean de Boulogne . 1529–1608, Italian mannerist sculptor, born in Flanders: noted for his fountains and such works as Samson Slaying a Philistine (1565)

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Example Sentences

The Bacchus stands on plinth on a street corner near the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge and is a modern replica of the 16th Century work by sculptor Giambologna.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated a few pieces, including a Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres canvas, a bronze by Flemish Renaissance sculptor Giambologna and a work by Hans Memling.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2015

Antique paintings of Cairo hung on flocked wallpaper in the front hall, and bronzes of all kinds—a Mannerist nude by Giambologna, columns modeled after the one piercing Paris’s Place Vendôme—occupied polished tabletops.

From Architectural Digest • Oct. 21, 2014

Giambologna, for example, developed a flowing, serpentine pose under the influence of Michelangelo’s “The Genius of Victory” sculpture.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2014

But it was the 1978 V&A exhibition of Giambologna, the Flemish master sculptor to the Medici court in Florence, that earned Radcliffe an international reputation.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2011