File:Giambologna - Lion Attacking a Horse - Walters 54669.jpg

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Giambologna: Lion Attacking a Horse   (  )
Artist	Giambologna  (1529–1608)     Alternative names Birth name: Jean Boulogne Description Flemish sculptor and architect Date of birth/death 1529  14 August 1608 Location of birth/death Douai, Flanders Florence Authority file : Q220136 VIAF: 34725916 ISNI: 0000000121276442 ULAN: 500016387 LCCN: n85252671 NLA: 35969335 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q220136 Antonio Susini (Italian, active 1572-1624)
Title	Lion Attacking a Horse
Description	English: A damaged but expressive Hellenistic marble sculpture of a "Lion Attacking a Horse" in Rome (now in the garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori) offered a challenge to artists to figure out how it originally looked. The group was restored in 1594. Giambologna, the sculptor of Flemish origins who dominated Florentine sculpture in the late 1500s, explored the subject in models for small bronzes around 1580-1589, which proved popular and continued to be cast long after his death. Individual examples exhibit variations. At least two casts were in Flemish collections, and this one is related to a version owned by the Emperor Rudolf II (now in Vienna). However, here the horse's forelock is lengthened and twisted into a small, spiral horn, evoking the unicorn of medieval legend and therefore appealing to a collector.
Date	model: 1580-1589; cast: early 18th century
Medium	brass medium QS:P186,Q39782
Dimensions	height: 23.8 cm (9.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,23.8U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	54.669
Place of creation	Florence, Italy
Object history	Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1900 suppl. cat. no. 98] [date and mode of acquisition unknown] 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	The Mannerists. Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana, Fort Wayne; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin. 1963-1965. World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972. Joseph Ternbach: Conservator, Collector. Queens Museum of Art, Flushing. 1984-1985. A Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993. The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001. Déjà Vu? The Repeating Image in Renaissance and Baroque Art. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2007-2008.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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