  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Giambologna's closest collaborator, Antonio Susini founded his own workshop in Florence in 1600 and continued to cast bronzes from models made earlier by Giambologna, an important sixteenth-century sculptor. The quality of the casting and the sharp, precise chasing of this bronze suggest that it derives from a wax model that Susini carefully reworked before casting.
This bronze is one of only two known casts bearing Susini's signature: "'ANT SVSINI FIORE. OPVS." The animated group, inspired by a monumental Greco-Roman marble and showing the lion ripping the flesh on the horse's back with the horse's head thrust back in agony, captures a climactic moment in a violent drama.
  
  
  Title
  Lion Attacking Horse
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. between 1580 and 1590
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Antonio Susini  (Artist)
  Italian, 1580-1624
  After Giovanni da Bologna  (Artist)
  Italian, 1529-1608
  
  
  
  Medium
  Bronze, red lacquer
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 12 &Atilde;&#151; 10 inches (30.5 &Atilde;&#151; 25.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  City of Detroit Purchase
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  25.20
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
