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Pietro Bracci

Italian sculptor

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contribution to sculpture

  • Edmonia Lewis: Hagar
    In Western sculpture: Late Baroque

    …of Agostino Cornacchini and of Pietro Bracci, whose allegorical figure Ocean on the Trevi Fountain by Niccolò Salvi (completed 1762) is less artfully dramatic and not as masterfully executed as Bernini’s sculpture. Filippo della Valle worked in a classicizing style of almost French sensibility, but the majority of Italian sculpture…

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