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Giambologna's innovative style and great success attracted many artists to Florence to join his large workshop. Two sculptors born in the Low Countries - Hubert Gerhard and Adriaen de Vries absorbed his manner and transformed it into distinctive idioms that they carried back to northern Europe. Both mastered the medium of bronze, working often at a large scale but also producing statuettes. This Tarquinius and Lucretia intersects with aspects of each sculptor's style, and over the years its attribution has shifted back and forth between them.
Unusual for either artist is the large number of casts that exist of this group. At least ten are known, significant differences distinguish them.
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