Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . s. ^ Besides his most valuable additions to the Uffizi GalleryFerdinand forwarded the interests of art ^ by patronizing thegifted sculptor Jean Boulogne of Douai, generally known asGian da Bologna or Giambologna. This artist, who for Fran-cesco had produced his world-famous Mercury, made forFerdinand the fine equestrian statue of Cosimo I which standsin the Piazza della
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . s. ^ Besides his most valuable additions to the Uffizi GalleryFerdinand forwarded the interests of art ^ by patronizing thegifted sculptor Jean Boulogne of Douai, generally known asGian da Bologna or Giambologna. This artist, who for Fran-cesco had produced his world-famous Mercury, made forFerdinand the fine equestrian statue of Cosimo I which standsin the Piazza della Signoria, and the still finer one of Ferdinandhimself (inspired evidently by that of Marcus Aurelius atRome, and cast from the metal of captured Turkish cannons)which adorns the Piazza della SS. Annunziata. ^ The inner Medicean harbour—^too shallow for large vessels—has since1854 been supplemented by the outer port, which is only protected by asemicircular mole, 2 Ferdinand foimded the still existing mantifactory of pietra dura (Floren-tine stone mosaic or intarsio). 3 Florentine painting was now extinct. The Flemish Sustermans beganhis fine realistic portrait-painting in the reign of Ferdinands son, Cosimo II. 496.
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