The present bronze figure is a rarely cast model, perhaps from a northern foundry, of the original bronze by Giambologna. This original was created by Giambologna, probably around 1570-71, to finish a fountain begun by Niccolò Tribolo at the Medici Villa of Castello, near Florence. The pose may be based on a wax model known to have been executed by Tribolo, however Tribolo's model was based on an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi of 1506, which itself seems to have been inspired by an Antique painting described by Pliny the Elder (op. cit., Avery, p. 54). Despite this artistic heritage, the Fiorenza displays all the characteristics of a composition by Giambologna with its elegantly mannered limbs and the radial twist of the figure.