CORNACCHINI, AGOSTINO. — Sculptor, born in Pescia in 1685 and died in Rome shortly after 1740. A pupil of G. B. Foggini, he embraced the Baroque in its pictorial and somewhat academic aspect, always maintaining, like other Tuscan sculptors, a wholly formal and external vision of things: he is one of the representatives of the Marattesque style in sculpture.
He executed a statue of Clement XI for the cathedral of Urbino, at St. Peter’s in the Vatican the Charlemagne, the holy water stoups (1725) and the statue of St. Elijah (1727), in the cathedral of Orvieto a Nativity of Mary and the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (1729), a Nativity of Mary and a Deposition at Superga, the statue of Charity in the Corsini chapel at the Lateran, a statue of Clement XII for Ancona and, finally, among his later works, the busts of Cardinals D’Adda and Omodei in the sacristy of the church of S. Carlo al Corso in Rome.