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In 1687 Foggini became court sculptor to the Medici and took over the workshop where Giambologna had already worked, whose tradition of Florentine small bronze he successfully continued. The already baroque-dramatic group shows the quick huntress Atalante, who only wanted to marry someone who beat her in a race. To distract her, Hippomenes threw golden apples in her path and thus won the race. The pedestal, which was replaced in the 18th century, was originally designed as a landscape.