Ferdinando de' Medici (1663–1713), Grand Prince of Tuscany, ca. 1680–82, Italian, Florence, Marble with base of gray marble, Overall (confirmed): 38 3/4 × 28 7/8 × 14 in., 337 lb. (98.4 × 73.3 × 35.6 cm, 152.9 kg), Sculpture, Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian, Florence 1652–1725 Florence), These meltingly carved busts of father and son are surely the finest examples of the portrait style of G. B. Foggini, the leading sculptor of the Florentine Baroque. While strong echoes of Bernini date the creation of the pair to shortly after the younger artist's return from Rome, they already exhibit Foggini's talent for the depiction of material opulence that earned him the post of Medici court sculptor
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