Pietro Baratta (1659–1729) (17th century) was an Italian sculptor of the

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period, active in

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. He was master of the sculptor

Francesco Robba Francesco Robba (1 May 1698 – 24 January 1757) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. Even though he is regarded as the leading Baroque sculptor of marble statuary in southeastern Central Europe, he has remained practically unknown to ...

Biography

Born in

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, he worked in Venice and

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

, at the villas on the mainland and as a landscape architect. He was the nephew of the sculptor

Francesco Baratta the elder Francesco Baratta the elder (c. 1590–1666) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. He was born in Massa, Tuscany, Massa di Carrara, and moved to Rome to work under Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He was one of many siblings, one of whom, Francesco ...

(1590–1666), who had worked in Rome in the studio of

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. Even his two brothers, Francesco and Giovanni, were sculptors. He had his own studio in which many trainees, including the sculptor

, apprenticed. He also had many orders from abroad: for the baroque gardens of

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Pietro Baratta and his workshop executed a series of allegorical sculptures, many of which have been preserved, including a sculpture of "Andromeda", an "Allegory of Architecture" and busts including the "Allegory of Winter", the "Allegory of Spring" and others.

Works

He is responsible for the sculptures in the facade of the Villa Manin's Chapel at Passariano di Codroipo (

); these include the statues of the four Evangelists and of the Madonna with the Child. Pietro Baratta is also the probable author of five statues of St Roch, St Antony Abbot, the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, St Matthew and St John Baptist on the facade of the Church of Santa Maria at

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(VI), built between 1660 and 1680 on the site of an older building. Pietro Baratta is the author of the statue of St

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, shown in a contemplative attitude, with an open

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in his hands, for the church of Santa Maria Assunta (I Gesuiti) in Venice. Interior of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice) - the Wisdom of Pietro Baratta.jpg, The Wisdom

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Venice

References

* Italian Baroque sculptors 17th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 18th-century Italian sculptors 1659 births 1729 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-artist-stub