Fountain of Neptune, Bologna
The Fountain of Neptune is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of the Italian courtly elite in the mid-sixteenth century.
The Fountain of Neptune
The fountain
Detail with a lactating nereid.
Giambologna, 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.
Portrait of Giambologna by Hendrick Goltzius, collection Teylers Museum
Giambologna's Neptune, atop the Fountain of Neptune, Bologna (c. 1567)
Abduction of a Sabine Woman (1574–82), Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The title was only assigned after completion.
Samson Slaying a Philistine, about 1562, V&A Museum London