# The Goddess of Nature [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TRIBOLO, Niccolò]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary This stand for an antique vase was designed by Tribolo. The attributes of Artemis of Ephesus have been adopted in highly explicit terms to create a Goddess of Nature. Sixteenth-century French artists emphasized the link between nature and femininity in the polymast \(many-breasted\) figure of the goddess Nature, often depicted with many breasts, and draped in plants and many animals. A telling example is the polymast statue of Nature by Tribolo, designer of the Boboli Gardens, sent to François I around 1529 for the Palace of Fontainebleau. ## Related artworks - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of the Labyrinth]() - [Joseph Interpreting Pharoah's Dreams]() - [Marriage of the Virgin]() - [Pan]() - [Pavement decoration]() - [Right lateral portal \(detail\)]() - [The Amphitheatre]() - [The Amphitheatre]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()