Apollo

Among the compact ranks of strictly observant Vasarians who supplied the sculptures and paintings for the studiolo, this flowing small bronze by Giambologna must have had the flavour of a bold innovation for the disenchanted freedom of its invention, which effortlessly attains the fresh ease of the quattrocento artists. The young god bends slightly in a gesture of great elegance that seems to echo the curves of the harp and at the same time to mark its counterpoint, measuring space and suggesting movement.