Pietro Simoni da Barga

( - 1589 )

The Medici Lion

circa 1575

Bronze

19.7 x 33.4 cm (7 ³/₄ x 13 ¹/₈ inches)

Private collection, USA

Possibly made for Cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici, later Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the Villa Medici on the Pincio Hill, Rome
Related Literature
M. Hochmann, Villa Medici, Il Sogno di un Cardinale – Collezioni e artisti di Ferdinando de’ Medici, Rome, 1999, pp. 208-211, nos. 37-40, illustrated pp. 209-211

Pietro Simoni da Barga