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Firenze
Firenze (prov.)
Toscana

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata
(Spedale degli Innocenti)

Busti dei primi quattro Granduchi medicei

Busts of the first four Grand Dukes of Tuscany

Giovan Battista Sermei
1605-12

Firenze / Busti dei primi quattro Granduchi medicei

Description

At the Spedale degli Innocenti are four marble busts of the first Granddukes of Tuscany.

Firenze - Busti dei primi quattro Granduchi medicei
in the middle of the outer façade
Nomen avi Cosmvs
referens atqve
inclyta facta
m.dc.xii

Cosimo II de' Medici
(Firenze 1590 - Firenze 1621)
4th Grand Duke 1609-1621 (Wikipedia).

in the middle, inside the portico
C.M.E.M.D.
Signed: ...batist de ...

Cosimo I de' Medici
(Firenze 1519 - Firenze 1574)
1st Grand Duke 1569-1574 (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Giovan Battista Sermei, 1607

Firenze - Busti dei primi quattro Granduchi medicei
Left side of the portico
F.ME.DII
Signed: opvs iohann.... de s.me...

Francesco I de' Medici
(Firenze 1541 - Poggio a Caiano 1587)
2nd Grand Duke 1574-1587 (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Giovan Battista Sermei, 1605

Right side of the portico
M.D.E.III

Ferdinando I de' Medici
(Firenze 1549 - Firenze 1609)
3rd Grand Duke 1587-1609 (Wikipedia).
Attributed to Giovan Battista Sermei

Sculptor

Giovan Battista Sermei, Italian sculptor from Fiesole.

Sources & Information

Repertorio delle architecture civili di Firenze, Spedale degli Innocenti.
Wikipedia, Spedale degli Innocenti.
Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?

Locatie (N 43°46'34" - E 11°15'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto074; Photograph: 8 May 2017
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