Pietro Bracci

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Marble statue of Oceanus by Pietro Bracci at the Trevi Fountain in Rome, showing a muscular, bearded man with flowing hair and draped cloth.

Pietro Bracci

Italian sculptor

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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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…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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