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A Mary Weitzel Gibbons monograph analyzes this artist's narrative presentation of the Passion in a cycle of reliefs for the Grimaldi Chapel. A ground-floor chamber containing an octagonal fountain depicting Thetis is part of a complex designed by this man that contains a network of water pipes to create the effects of sweat and tears. Water appears to be squeezed from a sea monster by the stalactite-bearded, 11-meter-high (15[1])central figure of this sculptor's (*) Apennine Colossus. Several bronzes by this man depict a long-limbed god balancing on a gust of air emitted by Zephyr. His first commission for the Medici was a vertical arrangement of three intertwined figures found in the Loggia dei Lanzi. Those depictions of Mercury and Rape of the Sabine Women (-5[1])were sculpted by, for 10 points, (-5[1])what Italian Mannerist? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Giambologna [or Jean de Boulogne; or Jehan Boulongne; or Giovanni da Bologna]
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