Giovanni Battista Foggini

Italian sculptor

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Giovanni Battista Foggini was an 18th-century Italian sculptor from Florence. He worked in a compromise style, influenced by Roman trends, and was instrumental in the revival of small-scale bronze statuettes in the region. His work is part of the late Baroque period in Italian sculpture, which saw a move towards more decorative and theatrical styles, though a more classical approach also persisted. Foggini's contributions are noted alongside other Florentine sculptors of his time, such as Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi.1

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Western sculpture
Late Baroque
…century is less spectacular, and Giovanni Battista Foggini took back from Rome the compromise style of Ferrarza, while Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi seems to have been instrumental in the brilliant revival there of small-scale bronze statuettes. Giovanni Marchiori worked in Venice with an attractive painterly style, in part based on the wood…
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…century is less spectacular, and Giovanni Battista Foggini took back from Rome the compromise style of Ferrarza, while Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi seems to have been instrumental in the brilliant revival there of small-scale bronze statuettes. Giovanni Marchiori worked in Venice with an attractive painterly style, in part based on the wood…
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