Colosso dell’Appennino (Apennine Colossus) by Giambologna, 1580
Parco mediceo di Villa Demidoff
Via Fiorentina, Pratolino
Florence, May 2022
“The Apennine Colossus (Italian: Colosso Appenninico) is a stone statue, approximately 11 m high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany in Italy. The colossus was erected in the late 1580s by the Flemish sculptor Jean de Boulogne, better known as Giambologna, as a personification of the Apennine mountains. The site was originally part of the estate of the Villa di Pratolino, which was built by Bernardo Buontalenti from 1569 onwards on orders by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Francesco de' Medici.” (Apennine Colossus, Wikipedia)
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