Sketching sculptures in Florence

25 August 2009 at 7:49 am (Sketches (croquis))

Pencil (6B) drawings on a Moleskine sketchbook. Palazzo Veccio and Loggia della Signoria.




1. Hercules and the Centaur, 1549 – 1599, Marble
By Giambologna (Douai 1524 – Florence 1608)

2. Hercules and Cacus, 1543
By Bartolommeo Brandini (1493 – 1560)

3. Rape of the Sabine Women, 1581 – 1583, Marble and Bronze
By Giambologna (Douai 1524 – Florence 1608)

4. Perseus, 1545 – 1554, Bronze, Marble base
By Benvenuto Cellini (Florence 1500, Florence 1571)

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