Fine set, JR! I could stare at these a while. #4 is quite disturbing... the people are unaware of the violence depicted in the statues. Is that a centaur being clubbed in the rightmost statue?
GoodEgg wrote:
Fine set, JR! I could stare at these a while. #4 is quite disturbing... the people are unaware of the violence depicted in the statues. Is that a centaur being clubbed in the rightmost statue?
Thanks! These are at the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence which right next to the Uffizi. Here is some additional info on those sculptures (from the internet):
The one on the left: "The Rape of the Sabine Women" by Giambologna (Jean de Boulogne), completed in 1583. This masterpiece of Mannerist sculpture depicts three figures spiraling upward in a complex composition - a Roman man abducting a Sabine woman while her elderly father or husband crouches below in despair. It was carved from a single block of marble and was revolutionary for being designed to be viewed from all angles."
The one on the right is a centaur. (again from the internet) "Hercules and the Centaur Nessus" (also called "Hercules Fighting the Centaur"), also by Giambologna, completed around 1599. It depicts the mythological hero Hercules subduing the centaur who attempted to abduct his wife Deianira.
