ANTONINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. — Sculptor of the 18th century who worked in Rome; he is recalled by Titi as belonging to the group of artists who, at the behest of Clement XI, completed the decoration of the colonnade in St Peter’s Square by executing the 44 travertine statues then lacking. A bust of St Anthony in the Galleria Pallavicini in Genoa is also attributed to him.
BIBL.: B. Magni, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, I, p. 577. Maria Donati