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| Tullio Lombardo and workshop Standing Youth (when owned by Queen Christina of Sweden in the mid-17th century this sculpture was believed to be a genuine ancient Roman work) ca. 1500 marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Francesco Camilliani Standing Youth ca. 1560-80 marble Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Francesco Camilliani Hercules Figures flanking Escutcheon of Cosimo I de' Medici ca. 1563 marble Fortezza Medicea, Siena |
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| Francesco Camilliani Hercules Figures flanking Escutcheon of Cosimo I de' Medici (detail) ca. 1563 marble Fortezza Medicea, Siena |
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| Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli and Silvio Cosini Triton (pulpit ornament) ca. 1558-60 marble relief Chiesa di San Matteo, Genoa |
from The Comedian as the Letter C
Triton incomplicate with that
Which made him Triton, nothing left of him,
Except in faint, memorial gesturings,
That were like arms and shoulders in the waves,
Here, something in the rise and fall of wind
That seemed hallucinating horn, and here,
A sunken voice, both of remembering
And of forgetfulness, in alternate strain.
– Wallace Stevens (1923)
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| Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli River God - The Tigris (Roman fragment, 2nd century AD, extended and reworked as The Tigris by Montorsoli) ca. 1535 marble Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican |
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| Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli River God - The Tigris (detail) (Roman fragment, 2nd century AD, extended and reworked as The Tigris by Montorsoli) ca. 1535 marble Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Portrait of Julia Domna (imitation of Roman antiquity) ca. 1540-60 marble head on alabaster bust Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giambologna Hercules battling the Centaur Nessus 1599 marble Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence |
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| Giambologna Hercules battling the Centaur Nessus (detail) 1599 marble Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence |
from The Fairie Queene
Not that great Champion of the antique world,
Whom famous Poetes verse so much doth vaunt,
And hath for twelve huge labours high extold,
So many furies and sharpe fits did haunt,
When him the poysoned garment did enchaunt
With Centaures bloud, and bloudie verses charm'd,
As did this knight twelve thousand dolours daunt,
Whom fyrie steele now burnt, that earst him arm'd,
That erst him goodly arm'd, now most of all him harm'd.
– Edmund Spenser (1596)
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Ganymede with Jupiter as Eagle ca. 1565-76 marble (sculpture group redeployed as fountain, ca. 1775) Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Ganymede with Jupiter as Eagle (detail) ca. 1565-76 marble- (sculpture group redeployed as fountain, ca. 1775) Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
from The Palace of Art
Or else flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh
Half-buried in the Eagle's down,
Sole as a flying star shot through the sky
Above the pillared town.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1832)
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Perseus slaying the Sea Monster ca. 1574-78 marble Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence |
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Perseus slaying the Sea Monster (detail) ca. 1574-78 marble Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence |
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Perseus slaying the Sea Monster (detail) ca. 1574-78 marble Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence |