Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture by Charles Avery, David Finn

Giambologna (1529-1608) was the foremost sculptor of the age of Mannerism, his work recognizable by means of his seductive and strongly distinctive style, who worked in the half-century following the death of Michelangelo in 1564. Charles Avery’s major critical study covers the whole range of Giambologna’s work in a fluent yet scholarly narrative and emphasizes his wide and long-lasting influence on the development of European sculpture.

A profound artist, as revealed by his combined energy and subtlety, Giambologna’s work as a whole displa