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Francesco Antonio Franzoni

Italian sculptor and restorer

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Francesco Antonio Franzoni (1734–1818) was an Italian sculptor and restorer.

Biography

Born in 1734 in the marble city of Carrara and trained there, Francesco Antonio Franzoni settled in Rome in the 1760s and established a workshop that specialised in the restoration of antique Roman sculpture, for which there was an insatiable demand, scarcely supplied by redoubled efforts at excavations. He worked on restoring, completing and refinishing sculptures destined for the Museo Pio-Clementino and provided marble revetments and sculptural details for its interiors, notably the biga (two-horse chariot) assembled in 1788 from antique elements, in the sala del Biga of the Braccio Nuovo. He worked for Pope Pius VI, for whom he filled a room with animal sculptures, some made up from antique fragments, in the Palazzetto del Belvedere; he also worked for the papal family at Palazzo Braschi.

He died in Rome in 1818.

References

Including what was probably a votive marble chariot of the first century CE, which had been used as a ''[[cathedra]]'' at San Marco (Touring Club Italiano, ''Roma'' 669.)

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