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BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (15241608) [Ital. for his real name, JEAN BOLOGNE Or BOULLONGNEJ, French sculptor, was born at Douai in 1524. His early training as a sculptor was conducted at Antwerp, but at the age of twenty-five he went to Italy and he settled in 1553 in Florence, where his best works still remain. His two most celebrated productions are the single bronze figure of Mercury, poised on one foot, resting on the head of a zephyr, as if in the act of springing into the air (in the Bargello gallery), and the marble group known as the Rape of the Sabines, which was executed for Francesco de' Medici and received this name, Lanzi informs us, after it was finished. It is now in the Loggia de Lanzi of the ducal piazza. Giovanni was also employed at Genoa, where he executed various excellent works, chiefly in bronze. Most of his pieces are characterized by great
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See La Vie et l'ceuvre de Jean Bologne, par Abel Desjardins, d'apres les manuscritsrecueillis par Foucques de Vagnonville (1883, numerous illustrations; list
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