# Allegory of Prince Francesco I de Medici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIAMBOLOGNA]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Bronze, 31 x 46 cm ## Commentary Giambologna's Allegory of Francesco I de' Medici \(now in the Prado, Madrid\) responded to a Medici family tragedy. The vagueness of the subject-matter, though, allowed it to resonate beyond the Florentine context, and Cosimo I de' Medici had Giambologna and his assistants produce a bronze copy for Emperor Maximilian II in 1564. The bronze is far more hard-edged than the alabaster, a result of the careful reworking it underwent at the hand of a goldsmith after it was cast. ## Related artworks - [Abduction Scene]() - [Allegory of Astronomy]() - [Allegory of Francesco I de' Medici]() - [Altar of Liberty]() - [Altar of Liberty]() - [Angel]() - [Apollo]() - [Appenine \(detail\)]() - [Appenine]() - [Appenine]() - [Architecture]() - [Bacchus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()