#Colosso dell'Appennino

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Colosso dell'Appennino, Pratolino, comune di Vaglia, Toscana.

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Colosso dell'Appennino by Jean de Boulogne

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Regione Toscana.

Il Colosso dell'Appennino è una statua in pietra alta circa 14 metri, situata nel Parco Mediceo di Pratolino in Villa Demidoff a Vaglia in provincia di Firenze. 🇮🇹

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La Scultura del giorno: il Colosso dell'Appennino del Giambologna a Pratolino

Il Parco Mediceo di Pratolino custodisce al suo interno la grande scultura del Colosso dell’Appennino, realizzata nel 1580 dall’artista fiammingo Jean de Boulogne, meglio conosciuto con il nome italianizzato di Giambologna. E’ un gigante in pietra di 14 metri e ha un aspetto a metà fra l’umano e la conformazione rocciosa, posto a far la guardia a guardia dello stagno che ha davanti a sé. La…

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Colosso dell'Appennino, Florence, Italy Calling all travel enthusiasts. Explore the awe-inspiring Colosso dell'Appennino in Florence, Italy and immerse yourself in its grandeur. Discover the secrets behind this enchanting sculpture with our helpful insights.

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Colosso dell'Appennino, Florence, Italy Calling all travel enthusiasts. Explore the awe-inspiring Colosso dell'Appennino in Florence, Italy and immerse yourself in its grandeur. Discover the secrets behind this enchanting sculpture with our helpful insights.

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Colosso dell'Appennino, Florence, Italy

Calling all travel enthusiasts. Explore the awe-inspiring Colosso dell'Appennino in Florence, Italy and immerse yourself in its grandeur. Discover the secrets behind this enchanting sculpture with our helpful insights.

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Colosso dell'Appennino

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The Apennine Colossus (Italian: Colosso Appenninico) is a stone statue, approximately 11 metres (36 ft) 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 colossus has the appearance of an elderly man crouched at the pond’s shoreline and is depicted in a watchful pose. It is surrounded by several mythological themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses like Pegasus, Parnassus or Jupiter and it is assumed that Giambologna was inspired by the description of a mountain-like Atlas in Ovid's work, when he designed the figure of Apennine. Other sources cite the Atlas as described in the Aeneid of the Roman poet Virgil as an inspiration. 

With his left hand in front of him, the Apennine seems to squeeze the head of a sea monster, whose open mouth spouts water into the pond ahead of the statue. The stone colossus is depicted naked, with stalactites in the thick beard and long hair to show the metamorphosis of man and mountain, blending his body with the surrounding nature, populated by aquatic vegetation. The statue is described to originally have been emerging from its environment like being alive. The giant was able to sweat and weep, water poured out from his body from a network of water-pipes. In the winter season, icicles would cover his body.

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Colosso dell'Appennino in Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Italy

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Il Duomo di Firenze, waiting the train in Vernazza and Il Colosso.

Little glance to the Italian Adventure. 

Carnet de voyage, 2017.

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Colosso dell'Appennino, Pratolino, comune di Vaglia, Toscana.

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The Appennine Colossus

Shrouded within the park of Villa Demidoff, in Medici Villas (Unesco World Heritage List, 2013), Pratolino, Vaglia, Tuscany, just 7 miles north of Florence, Italy, there sits a gigantic 16th century sculpture - 14-meter-tall masterpiece statue - known as Colosso dell'Appennino, or the Appennine Colossus. The brooding structure was first erected in 1580 by Flemish sculptor Giambologna, pseudonym of Jean de Boulogne (Douai, 1529 - Florence, 1608).

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“Shrouded within the park of Villa Demidoff (just north of Florence, Italy), there sits a gigantic 16th century sculpture known as Colosso dell'Appennino, or the Appennine Colossus. The brooding structure was first erected in 1580 by Italian sculptor Giambologna. Like a guardian of the pond in front of him, the giant is in an endless watchful pose, perched atop his earthy seat.”

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Il colosso dell'Appennino // The Appennine Colossus  (1579-1580)

I saw this statue by Giambologna in the park of the Villa di Pratolino, Tuscany, and just had to paint him and considering that i don’t have that much practice with acrylics i am pretty proud of this

18/03/2021