Giuseppe Giorgetti

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Barberini Faun
Saint Sebastian in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura

Giuseppe Giorgetti (documented 1668–82)

Barberini family for whom he undertook some restoration of ancient sculptures, most importantly of the Barberini Faun in 1679, carried out together with Lorenzo Ottoni
.

His masterpiece is the recumbent statue of Saint Sebastian (c. 1671/72) in the

via Appia, Rome, possibly after a design by Ciro Ferri.[2]

Notes

  1. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
    (World Biographical Dictionary of Artists), vol. 54, 2007, p. 430.
  2. Art Bulletin
    vol. 52, 1970, pp. 286-298.