Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BRACCI, PIETRO. - Sculptor and architect, born in Rome on 16 July 1700, died there on 13 February 1773. He was perhaps a pupil of C. Rusconi, and carried out his activity mainly in Rome. Among his most important works are BRACCI, PIETRO. - Angel on the right of the altar of St. John Berchmans — Rome, Church of St. Ignatius.
Among his most important works are: the statue of Religion and that of the Posteffice in the tomb of Benedict XIII in S. Maria sopra Minerva; the monument to Maria Clementina Sobieski in St. Peter’s, characteristically of the eighteenth century; the monument to Benedict XIV also in St. Peter’s, where the statue of Disinteresse is by Gaspare Sibilia.
Bracci, 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 outstanding (Statue of Clement XII, in the museum of Ravenna).
BIBL.: C. Gradara, P. B. scultore romano, Roma-Milano 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, Firenze 1932. Vincenzo Golzio
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“BRACCI, PIETRO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 1155. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/bracci-pietro.
