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GIAMAICA - Paesaggio costiero della G.

of Bologna, following a design by the Sicilian architect Tommaso Laurenti, and cast the large bronze statue of the sea god: one of his masterpieces. The bozzetto, also in bronze, is preserved in the Civic Museum of that city. He subsequently executed another Neptune, inferior to the Bolognese one, for the Boboli Gardens, and a very nimble flying Mercury (1572) for the fountain of Villa Medici in Rome, now in the National Museum of Florence. Then, in 1581, he executed the group of the Rape of the Sabine Women for the Loggia dei Lanzi, repeating the scene in an admirable bas-relief on the base. He left many other works in Florence: the St. Luke in Orsanmichele, the Hercules Slaying the Centaur in the Loggia dei Lanzi, the statues of Cosimo I, finished in 1594, in Piazza della Signoria, and of Ferdinando de' Medici in Piazza della S.ma Annunziata. G.'s sacred works are also numerous, among which of particular importance are the bas-reliefs with scenes of the Passion in the Palazzo dell'Università of Genoa, the two reliefs, the Pietà and the Deposition (1588), executed for the altar frontal of the Cross in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a bronze Crucifix in the Chapel of the Soccorso at the Annunziata, where his tomb was placed, and two other Crucifixes, one in the Pitti Palace Museum, and another in the Collegiate Church of Impruneta. G., among the greatest sculptors of his time, may be considered one of the last Mannerists, but in some of his works a certain anticipation of the Baroque taste is already evident. - See pl. XXX.