# Porcellino

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TACCA, Pietro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Bronze

## Commentary

Taking his inspiration from a famous marble copy of a Hellenistic marble boar \(Il Cinghiale\) in the ducal collection at the Uffizi, Tacca set himself the task of surpassing it: the result is the Porcellino \(1612\) of the Mercato Nuovo, Florence. Today it is replaced by a copy at the Mercato Nuovo, the original having been brought indoors.

## Related artworks

- [Abundance](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/abundance-r0e27c1fc60f902>)
- [Abundance](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/abundance-r1b038b74e11715>)
- [Equestrian Monument ot Ferdinando I de&#39; Medici](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-monument-ot-ferdinando-i-de-medici-r5ab0692293da18>)
- [Equestrian Monument to Ferdinando I de&#39; Medici](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-monument-to-ferdinando-i-de-medici-r833009fc4572c4>)
- [Equestrian Monument to Philip IV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-monument-to-philip-iv-r62c5572294b625>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip III](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iii-r57065ee7fd055a>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip III](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iii-r86ad08134f24d4>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip III](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iii-re20a86b8a0c9ae>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iv-r1fdf65c523498b>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iv-r5bff7d117456c8>)
- [Equestrian Statues of Philip IV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/equestrian-statues-of-philip-iv-r81ff788d43f51f>)
- [Fountain \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-pietro-r50f6e5185523b7/fountain-detail-r305650cf4bf335>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)