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Autore
Pierguidi, Stefano

Titolo
Mercurio a Firenze: da Lastricati a Giambologna
Periodico
Ricerche di storia dell'arte
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 109 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 67 - Pagina finale: 86

The reception of the BelvedereMercury (Florence, Uffizi), amarble statue once in the Belvedere in Rome which Pius IVgave to Cosimo I de' Medici, andthe reasons of the great fortuneof that statue in Florence, in the16th century, have not been studied. !erefore art historians havenot recognized the link betweenthat fortune and some importantbronzes: a copy of the Bel"edereMercury in Fontainebleau, thesmall Mercury by Willem vanTetrode (Florence, Bargello)and the large one by Giambologna, sent to Maximilian II ofHabsburg. !e latter, today in aprivate collection in Sweden, isthe first version of that famousinvention; the Mercury commissioned to Giambologna by PierDonato Cesi (Bologna, MuseoCivico) was made slightly later.



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