Tommaso Righi (1727–1802) was an Italian sculptor and stuccator with a practice in

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. His marble and stucco funeral monument to Carlo Pio Balestra (died 1776), patron of the Church of Santi Luca e Martina, in the

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, is probably his most prominent commission. His monument of cardinal Camillo Paolucci (died 1763) stands in a chapel of

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, where its design was constrained by its having to form a pendant to the baroque monument facing it, of Fabrizio Paolucci, by

Pietro Bracci Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. Biography He was born in Rome and became a student of Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari and Camillo Rusconi. His most familiar works are the colossal ''Oceanus' ...

(1726). A great work, less often seen, is his altarpiece in the Church of S. Maria del Priorato, the chapel of the Villa of the

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provided the design, and Righi executed the great globe surrounded by putti in clouds, and Saint Basil in Glory supported by two angels. His bas-relief panel appears among a host by others, in the central ''Sala degli Imperatori'' of the

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, part of the rearrangement of the interiors of the Villa Borghese undertaken in 1782 by prince Marcantonio Borghese.TCI, ''Roma e dintorni'' 276. In

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the main facade of the rigorously neoclassical

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is adorned with sculptures of the Four Evangelists by Righi. One of his pupils was

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, sculptor of a portrait of

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and passionate republican.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Righi, Tommaso 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 1727 births 1802 deaths Italian Baroque sculptors 18th-century Italian male artists