Pietro Bracci (June 16, 1700[1]–1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of Oceanus at the center of Rome's Trevi Fountain, based on a plaster modello by Giovanni Battista Maini.[1]
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PietroBracci (June 16, 1700–1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of Oceanus...
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Santa Maria sopra Minerva where he was buried in a tomb completed by PietroBracci and others. After the 1730 papal conclave elevated Pope Clement XII...
commissioned architect Filippo Barigioni to design a monument for her memory, PietroBracci sculpted a statue for it, and it was erected 1742 in the Basilica. Maria...
different sculptors were hired to complete the fountain's decorations: PietroBracci (whose statue of Oceanus sits in the central niche), Filippo della Valle...
Salvi did not live to see the fountain completed in 1762 by his friend PietroBracci. Salvi's other remaining works are few: he rebuilt the Chiesa di Santa...
French, Zelanti). The Conclave lasted for six months. At first Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, was favored to be elected...
arm, with its unexpected rhetorical hand gesture, were provided by PietroBracci. In the 18th century it was considered to be one of the most beautiful...
2004, p. 213. Reardon, 2004, p. 215. Olszewski, Edward J. (2004). Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667–1740) and the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII. Diane...
comments that Gradara published an excerpt from the diary of PietroBracci in 1732, in which Bracci states that he carved new heads for seven of the Dacian...
Virginio Bracci [it], an architect, and granddaughter of the sculptor PietroBracci. In 1811 she became a member of the Accademia di San Luca, which preserves...
chapel is a restoration of the 18th century, with a Baroque relief by PietroBracci. The Minutolo Chapel, mentioned in Boccaccio's Decameron, has 14th-century...
by Domenico Passignano and Giuseppe Puglia, High altar sculpture by PietroBracci, (c. 1750). Statue of Pius IX in prayer by Ignazio Jacometti, (c. 1880)...
fifth chapel is a monument to the Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1726) by PietroBracci with an altarpiece by Aureliano Milani and lateral paintings by Domenico...
constituting thirteen garden sculptures for abbate Antonio di Zanobi Bracci for the Villa Bracci at Rovezzano near Florence. The thirteen were purchased through...
prominent Italian Baroque sculptors, including Filippo della Valle PietroBracci, and Giovanni Grossi. The fountain, in all its grandeur and exuberance...
the statue of Neptune and Oceanus group, which instead was given to PietroBracci (1743–59). He also sent some reliefs to Siena, for the Chigi chapel...
out in the end to the more conservative declamatory Baroque manner of PietroBracci, who received the commission. Cavaceppi, "now certainly one of the most...
Mariacarla Boscono Giuseppe Bottai Raoul Bova Jole Bovio Marconi Cesare Bovo PietroBracci Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Mario Brega Alfonso Brescia Oscar Brevi Lilla...
(1670–1747), was a distinguished sculptor of the Florentine late Baroque. PietroBracci (1700–1773), was "the most prolific sculptor in eighteenth-century Rome...
left in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Among his pupils were PietroBracci, Giovanni Battista Maini, and Filippo della Valle. In 1727, he was named...
Luke together with PietroBracci, and was later to become the director or Principe of that group. In Rome, he worked with Bracci on Nicola Salvi's Trevi...
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, with sculpture by his frequent collaborator PietroBracci, to honor Pope Benedict XIII. Marchionni's contribution was limited...
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