The Assault on Antwerp

Certainly the influence of Giambologna, and particularly his reliefs on the monument of Grand Duke Cosimo, cannot be underestimated in this relief. The fluid movement and ease of historical narration are both new and extremely effective. The Farnese Monuments (that to Ranuccio on one side of the piazza, that to Alessandro on the other) took Mochi seventeen years (1612-29) to complete.