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Lucca (prov.)
Toscana

Via San Frediano 24 (in Via Anguillara)

Pompeo Batoni

Lucca 1708 - Roma 1787
Italian painter
(Wikipedia)

Carlo Dal Poggetto
1911

Description

Bronze bust on a console above a marble commemorative plaque, on the birth house of Batoni. The bust and the plaque was a gift to the town of Lucca by the sculptor.

Inscription(s)

A POMPEO BATONI
che riconducendo l'arte
allo studio dei grandi maestri e del vero
fu giudicato primo tra i pittori del sec.xviii
qui dove nacque il xxv gen. mdccviii
i cittadini
posero nel mcmxi

Sculptor

Carlo Dal Poggetto (Lucca 1828 - Lucca 1915), Italian sculptor (Artisti Lucchesi).

Sources & Information

Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?

Locatie (N 43°50'45" - E 10°30'16") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto160; Photograph: 16 May 2017
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