Pietro Tacca

Pietro Tacca ( ​​born September 6, 1577 Carrara, † October 26, 1640 near Florence ) was an Italian architect, sculptor and bronze caster.

Actually Tacca should study the whoosh of his father, according to law. On the recommendation of the sculptor Jacques Piccardi Tacca learned next general artistic basic knowledge and modeling. At 15, he became in 1592 a pupil of Giovanni da Bologna. With effect from March 12, 1599 he was admitted to the guild of painters and sculptors. As 1601 Pierre Franqueville left the studio, became Tacca the " master class " of Bologna. When he died in August 1608 Tacca was the successor of his friend and teacher.

Between 1634 and 1640 he worked at the Madrid equestrian monument to Philip IV, whose concept is based on a painting of the king of Diego Velazquez. This monument is the first equestrian statue of art history, in which there is a sculptor and bronze caster succeeded in presenting a rider with ascending horse, Galileo is said to have helped him according to the legend in the solution of static problems.

As a bronze caster Tacca created fountains and equestrian statues. Marble works he rarely explained himself; he created the plans and let them inter alia run by his pupil Bartolomeo Salvini.

Works

• Horn blowing youth ( Hermitage )
• Nessus and Deianira, 1590/1600 ( Hermitage )