The vogue for statues and fountains of contemporary rather than classical figures extended through the end of the century. In 1599 Cioli went to Carrara to obtain the marbles for four statues and matching fountains: two dwarfs (a Morgante and a Mar-gutte) and two peasants (a digger and a vintager). As the sculptor died before the year was over, and he could complete the fountain; the figures were continued from his models by his nephew Simone Cioli, and the fountains were finally completed in 1606 and 1608. The two dwarfs have been lost; and the statue of the digger, still in the Boboli Garden, apparently had no connection with a fountain. The group of the Vintage still stands in the Boboli Garden, at the end of a path leading from the chief axis of the Isolotto. It consists of a peasant emptying a bucket of grapes into a vat, and a balancing statue of a watching boy. These figures, released from all architectural restraint, stand free in the surrounding space in the fashion of baroque sculpture.
Other figures of peasants in contemporary costume were executed at Fratolino in the sixteenth century, for in the lunette of 1599, upon a fountain erected on the site...
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