The figures it depicts are arranged in a vertical helix, with the lower figure, a man, seeming to cower, and the middle figure, also a man, attempting to grab the top figure, the woman being abducted.
Sculpted in 1583 for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, it was created from a single, flawed block of marble, in the style of the Mannerist "flying" Mercury by the same artist. The figures it depicts are arranged in a vertical helix, with the lower figure, a man, seeming to cower, and the middle figure, also a man, attempting to grab the top figure, the woman being abducted. FTP what sculpture by Giambologna depicts the abduction by Romans of women from a neighboring region?
Sculpted in 1583 for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, it was created from a single, flawed block of marble, in the style of the Mannerist "flying" Mercury by the same artist.
The {Rape of the Sabine} Woman