1Hall of the Colossus

Named for a plaster cast of one of the Dioscuri once shown here; today it holds Giambologna's full-size model for the Rape of the Sabine Women and fifteenth-century Florentine paintings including Botticelli and the Cassone Adimari.

In This Area

Model for the Rape of the Sabine Women

Giambologna (Jean de Boulogne), about 1579 to 1582

Hall of the Colossus, centre

Madonna of the Sea

Sandro Botticelli (attributed; some scholars propose Filippino Lippi), about 1477

Hall of the Colossus

The Adimari Cassone

Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, called Lo Scheggia, about 1450

Hall of the Colossus