BRACCI, PIETRO. - Sculptor and architect, b. in Rome on 16 July 1700, d. there on 13 Febr. 1773. He was perhaps a pupil of C. Rusconi, and carried on his activity mainly in Rome. Among his most impor-

<strong id= — **BRACCI, PIETRO.** - Right-hand angel of the altar of St. John Berchmans - Rome, church of St. Ignatius.(phot. Alinari)

Many others are: the statue of Religion and that of the Posteffice in the tomb of Benedict XIII in St. Mary sopra Minerva; the monument to Maria Clementina Sobieski in St. Peter's, characteristically eighteenth-century; the monument to Benedict XIV also in St. Peter's, where the statue of Disinterestedness is by Gaspare Sibilia.

B., who only partially adhered to the peculiar tendencies of the century, represents the persistence of the Baroque tradition in eighteenth-century Rome. His gifts as a portraitist are very great (Statue of Clement XII, in the museum of Ravenna).

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BIBL.: C. Gradara, P. B. scultore romano, Rome-Milan 1920; id., Due opere dello scultore P. B. in Portagallo, in Roma, 16 (1938), pp. 234-36; G. Delogu, La scultura italiana del Seicento e Settecento, Florence 1932.

Vincenzo Golzio

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