# Cosimo III de' Medici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FOGGINI, Giambattista]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Marble, height 99 cm ## Commentary This portrait bust represents Cosimo III de' Medici \(1642-1723\), Grand Duke of Tuscany, the head of the Florentine family. Foggini had trained in Rome and there he absorbed the vigour and drama of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's style. The statue has a pendant, the bust of Ferdinando de' Medici \(1663-1713\), Grand Prince of Tuscany, the son of Cosimo III. Although it is assumed by some scholars that the pair belonged to a series of busts of members of the house of Medici, it is more probable that they were independent of a larger set. ## Related artworks - [Battle of Anghiari]() - [Bust of Cardinal Gian Carlo de' Medici]() - [Bust of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici]() - [Decoration of the Feroni Chapel]() - [Elector Palatine's cabinet]() - [Ferdinando de' Medici]() - [First Mass of St Andrea]() - [Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici as a Child]() - [Prie-dieu of the Electress Palatine]() - [Reliquary of St Sigismund \(detail\)]() - [Reliquary of St Sigismund]() - [Stoup decorated with the Annunciation]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()