Statua equestre di Ferdinando I de' Medici - Florence, Italy - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

"It is one of the last works by Giambologna , commissioned after the sculptor had achieved great international popularity with its equestrian statues , required by the major European rulers and started just by a committee of Ferdinand I , the equestrian statue of Cosimo I, in the square della Signoria.
The statue was completed by the pupil of Giambologna , Pietro Tacca , in 1608 , after the death of the master.
The work was made ??with the bronze coming from the guns of the Turkish galleys , which were won by the Knights of the Military Order of St. Stephen , built to fight the pirates who infested the Mediterranean on the initiative of the Medici family . In this memory , the belt girth of the horse was engraved : "De' metalli rapiti al fero Trace"."

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