# Fountain [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BANDINI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Stone ## Commentary The sixteenth-century fountain on the side wall of the garden of Palazzo Budini Gattai \(former Palazzo Grifoni\), rebuilt in the eighteenth century, is embellished with spongy concretions and the Mannerist statues of Venus and the sea monsters. It was commissioned from Bandini by Ugolino di Jacopo Grifoni, secretary to Cosimo I de'Medici. The Palazzo Grifoni is located on the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, and was constructed in 1563-74 by Giuliano di Baccio d'Agnolo and Bartolomeo Ammanati. ## Related artworks - [Bacchus with Barrel]() - [Bust of Brunelleschi]() - [Bust of Christ]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany]() - [Bust of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany]() - [Bust of Francesco I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Francesco I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Mary Magdalen]() - [Choir-screen \(detail\)]() - [Choir-screen \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()