TACCA, Pietro (b. 1577, Carrara, d. 1640, Firenze) |
Equestrian Monument ot Ferdinando I de' Medici1608Bronze Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence | |
Though it functions as a counter-attraction to Giovanni da Bologna's monument to Cosimo I, this monument proposes his son in a guise of peacemaker, thanks to the adoption of a mount that appeared to his contemporaries to be "tamer" than his father's. |