# Equestrian Monument ot Ferdinando I de' Medici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TACCA, Pietro]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Bronze ## Commentary Though it functions as a counter-attraction to Giovanni da Bologna's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giambolo/2/62giambo.html'\)" href="/html/g/giambolo/2/62giambo.html">monument to Cosimo I,</a> this monument proposes his son in a guise of peacemaker, thanks to the adoption of a mount that appeared to his contemporaries to be "tamer" than his father's. ## Related artworks - [Abundance]() - [Abundance]() - [Equestrian Monument to Ferdinando I de' Medici]() - [Equestrian Monument to Philip IV]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip III]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip III]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip III]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV]() - [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV]() - [Fountain \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of the Sea Monsters \(east\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()