TACCA, Pietro
(b. 1577, Carrara, d. 1640, Firenze)

Equestrian Monument ot Ferdinando I de' Medici

1608
Bronze
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.