Fortuna

Giambologna

17th-18th Century (?) · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This figure of Fortuna bears stylistic similarity with a work created by Giovanni Bologna in the 1560s, such as his Mercury composition of ca. 1563–34, or the sketch model for the group of Florence Triumphant Over Pisa of 1565. Its heavy, rough cast suggests it is a model preserved in bronze, not dissimilar from the appearance of Giovanni Bologna's first design for the Mercury, cast in 1564, now in the Museo Civico, Bologna.

Artist

Giambologna

Date

17th-18th Century (?)

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Italian or Northern Europe (?)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1970