Images of Rape of the Sabine Women, by Giovanni Bologna, 1583, Florence, Italy. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Loggia dei Lanzi

Rape of the Sabine Women
Giovanni Bologna
marble, 13 1/2 feet high
1583

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The serpentine arrangement of figures
The spiral movement of figures in this Mannerist work anticipates Baroque sculpture. Like other works in the Loggia dei Lanzi, this too depicts a triumphant figure, a Roman who is sucessfully carrying off a Sabine woman. This story of the early history of Rome is related in both Livy and Plutarch.

Detail of the bottom
See also Giovanni Bologna's Mercury in the Bargello and his Neptune Fountain in Bologna.

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	The serpentine arrangement of figures The spiral movement of figures in this Mannerist work anticipates Baroque sculpture. Like other works in the Loggia dei Lanzi, this too depicts a triumphant figure, a Roman who is sucessfully carrying off a Sabine woman. This story of the early history of Rome is related in both Livy and Plutarch.

	Detail of the bottom See also Giovanni Bologna's Mercury in the Bargello and his Neptune Fountain in Bologna.