Group

This terracotta group is made after Tribolo in Florence in the 19th century.

The group has all the appearance of having been moulded from a highly finished original in bronze or marble. The two heads are moulded separately. The group corresponds in reverse with an engraving of a lost fountain group by Tribolo in the Villa Casarotta at San Casciano. The site of the Tribolo fountain in the garden of the Villa Casarotta can still be identified, but the fountain seems to have been dismantled in the 19th century and the central group has disappeared.

Tribolo was an Italian sculptor, engineer and garden designer, who was apprecnticed in Florence first as a wood-carver with Giovanni d'Alesso d'Antonio and then as a sculptor with Jacopo Sansovino, whom he continued to assist well into the second decade of the 16th century.