Pietro tacca biography

Italian sculptor

Pietro Tacca (16 September 1577 – 26 October 1640) was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna.

Tacca began in a Mannerist style and worked in the Baroque style during his maturity.

Biography

Born in Carrara, Tuscany, he joined Giambologna's atelier in 1592.

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Tacca took over the workshop of his master on the elder sculptor's death in 1608, finishing a number of Giambologna's incomplete projects, and succeeding him almost immediately as court sculptor to the MediciGrand Dukes of Tuscany.

Like his master he took full advantage of the fashion among connoisseurs for table-top reductions of fine bronze sculptures. Louis XIV possessed Giambolognesque bronzes of Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar ([1] and Heracles and the Cerynian Stag[2] (now Louvre Museum) that are now attributed to Tacca, and dated to the 1620s.

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Tacca began by finishing Giambologna's equestrian bronze of Ferdinand de' Medi