Francesco Maria Nocchieri, born in

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, was a seventeenth-century Italian sculptor of minor reputation active in Rome, where he spent time in the large studio of

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. He worked largely as a restorer of antiquities. He was among the many Roman sculptors patronised by Christina, Queen of Sweden in her retirement in Rome; for Christina he executed an ''Apollo'' (1680) to complement a set of Roman sculptures of

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that had been found at

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, which were doubtless restored by Nocchieri; the ''Apollo'' is now at

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. The largest collection of Nocchieri's sculptures today are in the Gardens of Aranjuez, Madrid. A

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'' bozzetto'' at the

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represents ''Apollo holding his lyre, attentive to the Muses''.acc. no.WA.OA291. Nicholas Penny, ''Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day'', 3 vols., Oxford 1992:68
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Some other sculptors in Rome renowned for their restorations

Carlo Albacini Carlo Albacini (1734 — 1813) was an Italian sculptor and restorer of Ancient Roman sculpture. He was a pupil of Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, an eminent sculptor and restorer of Rome. Albacini was notable for his copies after classical originals such ...

Orfeo Boselli Orfeo Boselli, or ''Bosselli'', (1597–1667) was an Italian sculptor working in Rome. As with most Roman sculptors of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, a great part of his commissioned work was in restoring and completing fragmentary ...

Ippolito Buzzi Ippolito Buzzi (or Buzio) (1562–1634) was an Italian sculptor from Viggiù, near Varese, in northernmost Lombardy, a member of a long-established dynasty of painters, sculptors and architects from the town, who passed his mature career in Rome ...

* Bartolomeo Cavaceppi * Ercole Ferrata *

Francesco Fontana Francesco Fontana (, Naples – July 1656, Naples) was an Italian lawyer and an astronomer. Biography Francesco Fontana studied law at the University of Naples and then he became a lawyer in the court at the Castel Capuano. But failing to alwa ...

* Giovanni Battista Piranesi * Vincenzo Pacetti

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