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Giovanni Battista Caccini or Giovan Battista Caccini (24 October 1556 – 13 March 1613) was an Italian sculptor from
His garden sculptures produced the bold silhouettes and copious attributes that the genre requires. As an architect, his one notable work is the portico of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (1601).
Caccini died in Rome in 1613.
His brother,
Giovanni Battista Caccini or Giovan Battista Caccini (24 October 1556 – 13 March 1613) was an Italian sculptor from Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
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, who worked in a classicising style in the later phase of Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...
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Life
Giovanni Battista Caccini was born atMontopoli in Val d'Arno
Montopoli in Val d'Arno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about east of Pisa.
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between Florence and Pisa; his training was with the sculptor-architect Giovanni Antonio Dosio
Giovanni Antonio Dosio (1533–1611) was an Italian architect and sculptor.
Biography
Dosio was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome (1548–75) and Flo ...
, known for his accurate drawings of Roman antiquities
Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean such as the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt, and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures such as Ancient Persia (Iran). Artifact ...
, and Caccini's numerous interpretive restorations of Roman sculptural fragments gave him the reputation of being a knowledgeable antiquarian
An antiquarian or antiquary () is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artefacts, archaeological and historic si ...
, while the inescapable influence of Giambologna
Giambologna (1529 – 13 August 1608), also known as Jean de Boulogne (French), Jehan Boulongne (Flemish) and Giovanni da Bologna (Italian), was the last significant Italian Renaissance sculptor, with a large workshop producing large and small ...
and his circle can be seen in Caccini's bronze statuettes. Caccini was in close cooperation with Pietro Tacca
Pietro Tacca (16 September 1577 – 26 October 1640) was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna. Tacca began in a Mannerist style and worked in the Baroque style during his maturity.
Biography
Born in Carr ...
and the rest of Giambologna's pupils in the prolonged cooperation over the bronze doors for Pisa Cathedral
Pisa Cathedral (), officially the Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (), is a medieval Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the three s ...
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Fragmentary antiquities were not to the sixteenth-century collectors' taste. Caccini produced a head for an antique torso, and a further, crouching figure to produce the ''Bacchus and Ampelos'' in the Uffizi, which was once attributed to Michelangelo. He restored a fragmentary '' Apollo Sauroctonos'' as an ''Apollo with the Lyre'' (Uffizi). He could also improvise on antique themes: the biographer of artists Rafaello Borghini reported in 1730 that "In truth he was highly skilled in diligently putting together pieces, and counterfeiting, the Antique."
His garden sculptures produced the bold silhouettes and copious attributes that the genre requires. As an architect, his one notable work is the portico of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (1601).
Caccini died in Rome in 1613.
His brother, Giulio Caccini
Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre o ...
, was a famous composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
Selected works
* Figure of S. Giovanni Gualberto, Badia di Passignano, Val di Pesa, 1580 *''Bust of Christ'', c. 1595 (Rijksmuseum
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*''Temperance'', 1583 (Metropolitan Museum of Art
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)
*''Charles V crowned by Clement VII'', Salone del Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio
The ( "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It overlooks the , which holds a copy of Michelangelo's ''David'' statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
Originally called the ''Palazzo della Signoria'', a ...
, Florence.
*'' Ciborium'' in Santo Spirito, Florence
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*Among his numerous allegorical statues in the Boboli Gardens
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, Florence:
**''Seasons'', four figures in the Boboli Gardens
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, Florence
**''Youthful Jupiter'' (attributed), Boboli Gardens.C. Caneva, ''The Boboli Gardens'' 1982, p. 42, no. 38.; attributed in Louis Alexander Waldman, "A Case of Mistaken Identity: The Martellini Jupiter by Giovanni di Scherano Fancelli" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 140 No. 1149 (December 1998, pp. 788-798) p. 789.
*''Seasons'', two of the figures for the Ponte Santa Trinita
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, Florence
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caccini, Giovanni Battista 1556 births 1613 deaths People from Montopoli in Val d'Arno Grand Duchy of Tuscany people 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 17th-century Italian sculptors