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Sculptor, b. 1700 - d. 1773

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      • BRACCI PIETRO (1700 - 1773) Episode from Book VI of the Aeneid
        Dec. 13, 2022

        BRACCI PIETRO (1700 - 1773) Episode from Book VI of the Aeneid

        Est: €2,500 - €3,500

        BRACCI PIETRO (1700 - 1773). Episode from Book VI of the Aeneid. Defects. Signed lower left ""Pet. Bracci Inv. Et Delin."" Provenance: Private collection, Parma. Literature: P. Consigli Valente (cured by), ""Disegni Antichi (Collana Le collezioni private parmensi)"", 1988, p. 285, n. 355. Pietro Bracci was one of the main sculptors of the last Roman Baroque, first a pupil of Camillo Rusconi and then an artist at the service of the greatest exponents of the Curia: protege of Cardinal Alessandro Albani, member (and then prince) of the Accademia di San Luca and of the Accademia Clementina of Bologna, among his works there are many marble portraits of the members of the pontifical court, two statues of Pope Clement XII (one in Ravenna, the other originally located in the Campidoglio, then destroyed in 1798) and, above all, the famous statuary group in the center of the Trevi Fountain, with the imposing Ocean God on his chariot in the form of a shell pulled by two sea horses and two tritons. Our drawing seems to refer to the layout and decorative idea of ​this late Baroque masterpiece, and depicts the moment in which Aeneas, following the indications of the Sibyl, affixes the golden branch at the gates of Dite before heading towards the Elysian Fields : the whole episode, however, is set in a fantasy baroque architecture, almost a ""hortus conclusus"" of marble where the infernal beings, Cerberus and Pluto and Proserpina are depicted as real marble sculptures. The sovereigns of Hades themselves, inserted in an architecture with caryatids and Gorgon heads, seem to be part of a decoration of a fountain, like those of the Renaissance and then Baroque ""villas of delights"", or like the group of the God Ocean of the Trevi Fountain.. Cm 43,50 x 31,50.

        Capitolium Art
      • Pietro Bracci (1700-1773) Intaglio Occasional Table
        Mar. 12, 2020

        Pietro Bracci (1700-1773) Intaglio Occasional Table

        Est: $200 - $400

        Two tier table with inset Roman intaglios with a brass frame on casters. 22"h x 18"w x 13"d   

        Alderfer Auction
      • A COLLECTION OF FIFTY NINE PLASTER INTAGLIOS produced by the Italian sculptor Pi
        Jun. 24, 2015

        A COLLECTION OF FIFTY NINE PLASTER INTAGLIOS produced by the Italian sculptor Pi

        Est: £800 - £1,500

        A COLLECTION OF FIFTY NINE PLASTER INTAGLIOS produced by the Italian sculptor Pietro Bracci (1700-1773) contained within velum bound book box with handwritten key (originally a set of sixty therefore one deficient), 30 x 21cm

        Mallams
      • Pietro Bracci (Rome 1700-1773)
        Jan. 22, 2003

        Pietro Bracci (Rome 1700-1773)

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        Design for the tomb of Pope Clement XI Albani with allegories of Strength and Religion flanking a sarcophagus signed, inscribed and dated 'Petrus Bracci Rom. Fecit 1743' and inscribed 'Scala di Palma Trenta Romani' and with a scale numbered from 1 to 30 black chalk, pen and black and red ink, grey, brown and green wash heightened with white, with stylus indications, on two sheets of brown paper, watermark encircled device 163/4 x 10 1/8 in. (425 x 256 mm.) NOTES This drawing is a project for an unexecuted monument to Pope Clement XI Albani (1700-1721). Although this design was drawn 22 years after the death of the Pope, Bracci's connections with Clement's two nephews, the Cardinals Alessandro and Annibale Albani, are documented as early as 1734. In that year Bracci restored an antique sculpture for Cardinal Alessandro (E. Kieven and J. Pinto, Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome, University Park, 2001, p. 273) and in 1741 Cardinal Annibale became godfather to his son. Further, in 1742, the year before the present drawing was executed, Bracci restored an antique sculpture of Apollo for Alessandro (E. Kieven and J. Pinto, op. cit., pp. 81 and 275). Other than the present drawing only one other commission for the Albani is known: a Design for a book cover or a ceiling with the Albani arms in the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (E. Kieven and J. Pinto, op. cit., no. 82). Pietro Bracci reused the present drawing for his monument to James III that he proposed to erect in Saint Peter's in Rome in 1766. A design for that tomb kept in the Canadian Center for Architecture shows James III standing in a bay flanked by Corinthian columns below a cornice over the very same allegories as in the present drawing (E. Kieven and J. Pinto, op. cit., no. 53). The ground plan of the present drawing corresponds to an alternative project for the monument for James III kept in the same museum (E. Kieven and J. Pinto, op. cit., no. 52).

        Christie's
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