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| Pietro Tacca |
September 16, 1557 - 1640
Birth Place : Carrara
Pietro Tacca (Carrara September 16, 1557 – Florence 1640) was a Florentine sculptor, the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna, whose atelier he joined in 1592. Tacca began in a Mannerist style and worked in the Baroque style during his maturity. Tacca took over the workshop of his master Giambologna on the elder sculptor's death in 1608, completing a number of Giambologna's incomplete projects, and succeeding him almost immediately as court sculptor to the Medici Grand 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 nd Heracles and the Cerynian Stag (now Louvre Museum) that are now attributed to Tacca, ca. 1620s.
Tacca began by finishing Giambologna's equestrian bronze of Ferdinand de' Medici for the Piazza della SS. Annunziata, a project in which he had participated at every stage, from the terracotta models to the casting process in the fall of 1602 and the finishing (by 1608).
Tacca's public works for the Medici include his masterpieces, the four Slaves (1620–24) at the foot of Baccio Bandinelli's statue of Ferdinand I de' Medici in Piazza della Darsena, Livorno. Bronze reproductions of these figures were still being reproduced for connoisseurs in the 18th century.
Two bronze fountains destined for Livorno (ca 1629), still in a highly Mannerist style indebted to Flemish Mannerist goldsmith's work for their grotesque masks and shellwork textures, were set up instead in Piazza della SS. Annunziata, Florence. For Giambologna's equestrian statue of Cosimo de' Medici in the Piazza della Signoria, Tacca contributed the bas-relief panels on its base.
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, replaced by a copy
the original having been brought indoors.
For Madrid, Tacca executed Giambologna's equestrian bronze of Philip III (1616), which was moved in the 19th century to the Plaza Mayor. For Paris, by order of Marie de Medici he finished Giambologna's equestrian Henri IV (inaugurated August 23, 1613), which stood at the center of the Pont-Neuf but was destroyed in 1792 during the Revolution, then replaced with the present sculpture at the Restauration.
Tacca's last public commission was the colossal equestian bronze of Philip IV, said to have been based on the icography of a lost painting by Rubens, begun in 1634 and shipped to Madrid in 1640, the year of his death. The sculpture, atop a complicated fountain composition, forms the centerpiece of the façade of the Royal Palace. The daring stability of the statue was calculated by Galileo Galilei: The horse rears, and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs—and, discreetly, it tail— a feat that had never been attempted in a figure on a heroic scale, of which Leonardo had dreamed.
His son Ferdinando Tacca assisted him in the atelier; the inventory (1687) after his death included sculptures doubtless by Pietro Tacca.
Compare Antonio Susini, another collaborator of Giambologna.
Tacca in museum collections
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