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75: 20: 194:(1751) work was halted with only the foundations built. A few years later the works were assigned to Panini who was stopped when he started to make changes to the project. Bracci took over in 1761 and finished the fountain in 1763. Nicola Salvi and Pietro Bracci were longtime friends, both being members of Arcadia and members of the confraternity of the virtuosi at the 165: 149:", James Stuart, one of the Catholic Stuart claimants to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. It is one of three monuments in St. Peter's dedicated to the deposed royal line of Stuart. The sculpture is in polychrome with an image of Maria Clementina in mosaic held aloft by Charity. The monument was conceived by the architect 355: 215:
Bracci had a wide range of interests as known from his manuscripts, most of them are today lost. These interests included architecture, military engineering, sundials but also Ancient
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Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome: Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Other Collections
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Like all sculptors in Rome since the 16th century, Bracci was often called upon to restore or complete Roman sculptures, such as the
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Architecture and Sculpture in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Drawings by Pietro and Virginio Bracci in the CCA and Other Collections
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There are several official busts of Benedict XIII by Bracci, and a terracotta (1724), conserved in
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I Geroglifici ed Obelischi Eggizzi, 'opera postuma inedita di Pietro Bracci', 1767
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manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of
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Drawings by Pietro Bracci, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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Bracci died in Rome in 1773. His son was the architect
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Index


Trevi Fountain
Late Baroque
Oceanus
Rome
Trevi Fountain
modello
Giovanni Battista Maini

Museum of Grenoble
Rome
Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari
Camillo Rusconi
Trevi Fountain
Giovanni Battista Maini
Benedict XIII
Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Carlo Marchionni
Benedict XIV
Basilica of Saint Peter
Maria Clementina Sobieski
Old Pretender
Filippo Barigioni
Giuseppe Renato Imperiali
Sant'Agostino

Oceanus
Trevi Fountain
modello
Giovanni Battista Maini

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