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The Porcellino (transl. "Piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and moved to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of its rediscovery with the Calydonian Boar of Greek myth.

Copies
Copies of the sculpture can be found around the world. Some of the locations are: AustraliaSydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW Belgium • Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Brussels • Place de Bastogne, Koekelberg, Brussels • Enghien Park, EnghienAntwerp Zoo CanadaButchart Gardens, Victoria, BC • Modern Languages building, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ONArt Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS Denmark • Brotorvet, Holstebro FranceMusée du Louvre, Paris • Place Richelme, Aix-en-Provence GermanySitzender Keiler (recreation by Martin Mayer) in the Borstei and in front of the Deutschen Jagd- und Fischereimuseum, Munich ItalyRispescia, Grosseto, TuscanyLoggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence Japan • Tokyo, Nihonbashi District, Pigeon Corporation Headquarters • Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture • Uroko no Ie, Kitano Ijinkan, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture Norway • Slemdal skole, Oslo Spain • Parque de El Capricho, Madrid SwedenLejonet och svinet, Stockholm United KingdomDerby Arboretum, Derby, England • Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England • Leweston School, Dorset, England • Castle Howard, North Yorkshire • St Mary's College, Durham, Durham, England • Kimmerghame House, Scottish Borders, Scotland • Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England United States • Arkansas • University of Arkansas campus, Fayetteville • California • Eberle Winery, Paso Robles. • Viansa Winery, Sonoma • Colorado • Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood • Connecticut • Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford • Delaware • Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington • Georgia • Armstrong Kessler Mansion, 447 Bull Street, Savannah • Hawaii • Honolulu, private collection • Illinois, • Riverview Inn & Suites, on the Rock River in Rockford • Kansas • The Villages Shopping Center, Prairie Village • Kentucky • Louisville, private collection • Louisiana • R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport • Missouri • Country Club Plaza, N.W. Corner of 47th Street and Wornall Road, Kansas City • Nevada • Main Street Station Casino Brewery Hotel - at casino bar, Las Vegas • New York • Sutton Park • The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom amusement park at Queensbury • North Carolina • Mar Boar Restaurant, Wallace • Pennsylvania • Former Strawbridge & Clothier store, 801 Market Street, Philadelphia • South Carolina • Poinsett Plaza, Greenville • Armstrong House, Savannah, Georgia • Texas • Plaza Skillman Shopping Center, DallasDallas Zoo, Dallas • Rice Village, Houston • Vermont • Lyndon Center • Virginia • Stone Tower Winery, Leesburg, Virginia ==In popular culture==
In popular culture
The sculpture appears in literature as well as onscreen. In literature The figures in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Bronze Hog" in ''A Poet's Bazaar''. A plaque nearby explains the relationship between this boar and the story. In film appears in the 2001 film Hannibal when Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) cleans his hands in the fountain. The statue is also seen briefly in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley climb the Hogwarts staircase after crashing into the Whomping Willow, and again on the same staircase during the flashback scene where Tom Riddle speaks to Albus Dumbledore. It also appears in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows –Part 2 (2011) in the Room of Requirement. In the 1962 film Light in the Piazza, Fabrizio (George Hamilton) pats the boar's snout for luck after buying flowers. ==Gallery==
Gallery
File:PorcellinoFlorence.jpg|Well-worn snout of in the Mercato Nuovo, Florence, Italy File:Florencja Il Porcelino RB.jpg| in Florence File:Fontana del porcellino, base 04.JPG|Detail on the base File:Il Porcellino, Bronzesvinet, Brotorvet, Holstebro, Denmark.JPG|, Bronzesvinet at Brotorvet, Holstebro, Denmark File:SydneyHospital IlPorcellino gobeirne.jpg|A copy (1962) in Sydney File:Il Porcellino in Munich.jpg|In front of the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum in Munich, Germany File:UWaterloo Porcellino.jpg|On the University of Waterloo campus File:Porcellino at Stone Tower Winery, Virginia, USA.jpg|At Stone Tower Winery, Leesburg, Virginia == References ==
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