Baroque Sculpture

Marble, height cm 220, carved from 1621 to 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Marble, height cm 220, carved from 1621 to 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Description: Marble, height cm 170. Executed in 1623-1624.

Description: Marble, detail, height cm 170. Executed in 1623-1624.

Description: Marble, detail. The work was commissioned in 1565 by Francesco I De' Medici for Palazzo Vecchio.

Description: Marble. Commissioned in 1565 by Francesco I de' Medici for Palazzo Vecchio.

Description: Marble, detail from the "Beheading of John The Baptist".

Bronze, detail. -

Bronze, detail. -

Bronze, detail from Fountain of Neptune, 1560-1575.

Bronze, height cm 95. Executed between 1572 and 1575.

Marble, detail.

Commissioned around 1575 by the Medici for the Boboli Gardens. The fountain is also called the “Venus of the Grotticella”.

Marble, detail, 1563-1566.

Bronze, detail, height cm 62.

Bronze, height cm 180. Three different versions: the first go back to 1550, this copy displays the artists maturity.

Marble, detail. Executed in 1583.

Marble, height cm 410, 1583.

Bronze bas-relief at the base of the marble group. Executed in 1583.

Bronze, height cm 95.

Marble, height about cm 230. Active in Florence and Pisa, Caccini owes his fame to the allegories on the bridge over the Arno.

Marble, height cm 116.

Marble, height cm 116.

Marble and stone.

Bronze, detail. -

Bronze, detail, 1624.

Marble, height cm 197.

Bronze, height cm 135, detail of an allegorical figure.

Marble, detail, 1585-1586.

Marble, h. cm 192. In Venice the artist entered, in 1543, the workshop of Sansovino, with whom he collaborated until about 1560.

Marble, detail, about 1560.

Terracotta, height cm 70.

Bronze, height cm 71. The statuette of the Baptist, cast around 1585, adorns a holy-water stoup.

Bronze, height cm 110.

Bronze, height cm 50.

Bronze, detail of the altar.

Bronze relief height cm 95, after 1603.

Bronze relief, detail.

Stucco, height cm 350.

Stucco, height about cm 350.

Marble, detail of the tomb of Luisa degli Aldobrandini, about 1600.

Marble, detail from the tomb of Luisa Deti Aldobrandini, about 1600.

Marble, height about cm 170.

Bronze, detail. -

Terracotta, height cm 57.

Marble, detail. This statue, executed in 1600, faithfully reproduces the position in which the body of the Martyr Saint was found during the restoration excavations of the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.

Marble, detail of the group of two statues, the Virgin Annunciate and the Angel of the Annunciation, originally intended to stand on either side of the choir of Orvieto Cathedral. The work, of 1605-1608, was commissioned by the Farnese family.

Marble, detail.

Bronze, detail. Executed in 1625. From 1612 to 1629 Mochi was in the service of the Farnese in Piacenza, where he made the two equestrian monuments to Ranuccio and Alessandro Farnese.

Bronze, detail of the equestrian monument to Alessandro Farnese.

Bronze, detail of the base of the monument to Alessandro Farnese.

Marble, height cm 315.

Marble, height cm 138, about 1610.

Marble, height cm 243.

Marble, height cm 220, 1618-1619.

Marble, height cm 243, 1622-1625.

Marble, detail, 1622/25. This work translates into an image the fable from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. The statuary group, like the David, was commissioned by the greatest collector of antiquities of the time, Cardinal Borghese.

Marble, height cm. 240, 1626.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail, 1635.

Marble, detail. The fountain was made between 1612 and the first half of 1613.

Bronze and polychrome marble, height cm 360, 1628-1647. Urban VIII (elected Pope in 1623, died in 1644) commissioned Bernini as early as 1628 to make his tomb, to be placed in the right-hand niche of the apse of St. Peter's.

Marble and bronze, detail. Made between 1647 and 1652.

Marble, height cm 215, 1646-1652.

Marble, detail, 1648-1651.

Marble, height cm 71, 1650.

Marble, height cm 100.

Marble, height cm 275, 1667-1669.

Marble, detail, 1674.

Marble, length cm 188.

Marble, height cm 60.

Marble, detail, about 1650.

Marble, height cm 286, about 1650.

Marble, detail.

Bronze, height about cm 240.

Marble, detail, height cm 310.

Carved wood, cm 208 x 142 x 44

Marble, height about cm 170.

Marble, height cm 400.

Marble, detail.

Polychrome marble. (with Cosimo Fancelli)

Alabaster, height cm 73.

Marble, detail.

Polychrome terracotta, detail.

Polychrome terracotta, detail.

Silver gilt, detail.

Marble, detail. The Flemish artist was very active in the Veneto throughout the 17th century.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height cm 287.

Polychrome marble, bronze, silver.

Marble, detail of the marble group on the left of the altar of Sant'Ignazio.

Marble, height about cm 300. Marble group on the left base of the altar of Sant'Ignazio.

Marble, height about cm 300. Marble group set on the base of the altar of Sant'Ignazio.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height cm 360. St. James is one of the monumental figures of Apostles with which the Lombard artist helped to adorn the niches designed by Borromini for San Giovanni in Laterano.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail of the bas-relief on the sarcophagus, height cm 115, about 1700.

Marble, height about cm 360. Executed between 1713 and 1715. The first important sculptural work of 18th-century Rome is linked to the completion of the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, promoted by Pope Clement XI.

Marble, detail. 1713-1715.

Polychrome marble, alabaster and bronze, height cm 195. The work was completed in 1742.

Marble, height cm 580. Detail of the Trevi Fountain designed by the architect Nicola Salvi.

Marble, 1732-1762.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height cm 930. Relief from the altarpiece of the altar of the Santo.

Marble, detail.

Stucco, detail of the relief from the Chapel, 1714/17.

Stucco, detail, 1714/17.

Stucco and gold, height about cm 200.

Stucco, height cm 170.

Stucco (a mixture of lime and marble dust), height cm 160.

Stucco, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail, 1753, based on model by Corradini.

Polychrome terracotta and material.

Polychrome terracotta and material.

Marble, detail.

Terracotta model, height cm 44.

Terracotta model, height cm 120.

Stone, height about cm 185.

Marble, detail.