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    The Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I is a bronze equestrian statue executed by Giambologna from 1587 to 1594, and erected in 1594 in the Piazza della Signoria...
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    Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany...
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    The Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I is a bronze equestrian statue by Giambologna, executed in 1602–1607, and erected in 1608 in the Piazza of the...
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    Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts. Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I, honoring Cosimo I de' Medici and sculpted by Giambologna (1594) Fountain of Neptune...
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  • Stockholm Giambologna: Equestrian statue of Cosimo I (1598) Pietro Tacca: Monument to Philip IV of Spain (1634–1640) During the age of Absolutism, especially...
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    Giambologna's and Pietro Tacca's Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I (1608) on the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata. Cosimo I de' Medici by Giambologna (1598)...
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    Fontana dei mostri marini (category Sculptures of fish)
    of the sea monster Detail of the tank Detail of the base Pietro Tacca Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I (Florence) Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I (Florence)...
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    monument with representation of an equestrian figure of a ruler in Serbia. The monument is by Italian sculptor Enrico Pazzi. Reliefs on the monument were...
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    Buonsignori Map (category History of Florence)
    Fountain of Neptune, the Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I in piazza della Signoria and the first fortifications of what would become the Belvedere. v t...
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    Florentine monuments honoring the Medici dukes Cosimo I and Ferdinando I. Each of which echoed the calm mastery of rider over horse evident in Equestrian Statue...
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    which became a duchy under Cosimo I of Tuscany, who became Grand Duke after the conquest of Siena, making Florence the capital of Tuscany. The Medici were...
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    commission to Giambologna, who had executed monuments to the grand dukes of Tuscany, Cosimo and Ferdinand I (at Arezzo) Following Giambologna's death (1608)...
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    in Piazza della SS. Annunziata, Florence. For Giambologna's equestrian statue of Cosimo de' Medici in the Piazza della Signoria, Tacca contributed the...
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    Donatello (category 15th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
    'Honey-Cat'), who had died that year. Designing and planning his Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata probably began that year or the next, with the casting...
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    Vinci to design an equestrian statue as part of a monument to Francesco I Sforza. A clay model of a horse which was to be used as part of the design was completed...
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    Buglioni assisted Niccolo il Tribolo in constructing a temporary equestrian statue of Cosimo's father, Giovanni delle Bande Nere. This was set up on the Piazza...
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    San Lorenzo, Florence) Statue of Marquess Cosimo Ridolfo (1899, Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence) Equestrian Monument for King Carlo Alberto (1900,...
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    The monuments of Verona are a vast number of architecturally, archaeologically, historically, and artistically significant cultural assets that characterize...
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    "sculpture of any quality" was more expensive than an equivalent in painting, and when in bronze dramatically so. The painted Equestrian Monument of Niccolò...
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    muscles of the animal in detail. Its original purpose is unknown, but it may have been made as a study for the equestrian statue of Duke Cosimo I of Florence...
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  • Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498–1526), son of Caterina Sforza and father of Cosimo I de' Medici, fought in the service of Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII in the...
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    the arts of Islam and the East. Freer Gallery of Art. pp. 81–101. Abbott, Jacob (2009), History of Darius the Great: Makers of History, Cosimo, Inc.,...
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    Leonardo da Vinci (category Ambassadors of the Republic of Florence)
    huge equestrian monument to Ludovico's predecessor Francesco Sforza. This would have surpassed in size the only two large equestrian statues of the Renaissance...
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  • 1480s in art (category Years of the 15th century in art)
    In the Republic of Venice A competition to design a monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni is won by Andrea del Verrocchio with an equestrian design. Giovanni...
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  • Münster, Ulm (url) Pietro Tacca (1577–1640), 9 sculptures : Equestrian Monument to Ferdinando I de' Medici, Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence (url)...
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    (1484 – 1491.03.14) Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (O.E.S.S.H.) (1503.12.07 – 1511.10.04) Francisco...
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    behind the Orsanmichele. The Jewish Ghetto imposed by Cosimo I collected the city's Jews into a portion of this space. The ghetto contained both an Italian...
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    Series. New York: Cosimo, 2007, ISBN 978-1-60206-508-6, p. 418, footnote 6. Pohlsander, Emperor Constantine, 42–43. Scarre, Chronicle of the Roman Emperors...
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    Montecatini Terme (category Municipalities of the Province of Pistoia)
    Francis I, son of Cosimo. However, he had to grant the use of the baths to the citizens of Montecatini. In those years the population and the economy of the...
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    erotic statue of David, one of the icons of the Florentine republic, and his great monument to Gattamelata, the first large equestrian bronze to be created...
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