Pietro Tacca
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Pietro Tacca was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna. Tacca began in a Mannerist style and worked in the Baroque style during his maturity.
Giambologna's equestrian bronze of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany for the Piazza della SS. Annunziata; completed by his assistant, Pietro Tacca.
Quattro Mori: prisoners at the foot of the Monument of Ferdinand I de' Medici, Livorno.
Fountain in Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence.
Philip IV of Spain in the centre of Plaza de Oriente in Madrid.
Giambologna
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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