Draft of a passage atmosphere that
accommodates alone three monumental sculptures. To the center is placed the
Vaso Medici, a crater to goblet, of neoattica workshop, the second half of the first century a.C., extraordinary for quality and dimensions, decorated with scenes bassorilievo representing the Achei heroes who consult the oracolo of Delfi before the departure for Troy.
To the two extremities of the verone two imposing are found statues in bronze:
Marte gradivo, of Bartolomeo Ammannati, that it represents the God of the war in existence to proceed in front of the army, and
Bacco fanciullo di Jacopo del Duca, work derived from one roman statue, now
in Louvre, in its turn copy from a bronze of IV the century, perhaps of Lisippo |