Giovanni Baratta

Giovanni Baratta
Born	1670 Carrara
Died	1747
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	Baroque

Giovanni Baratta: Allegory of Lombardy (Bode-Museum, Berlin)

Altar of the Madonna del Suffragio, San Remigio, Fosdinovo.

Giovanni Baratta (1670–1747) was an Italian sculptor of the late-Baroque period.

He was born in Carrara, but active in Florence and Livorno. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini. He has sculptures in church of San Ferdinando, Livorno. He also sculpted some works, including the Altar of the Madonna of the Suffrage (aiding the souls in purgatory) for the church of San Remigio, Fosdinovo. His statues of Hercules and Orpheus and Euridice were acquired by Danish king Frederick IV and are in the Hercules Pavilion in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He is the nephew of Francisco Baratta the elder, who worked in the studio of Bernini in Rome. Giovanni had two brothers who were also sculptors: Francesco Baratta the Younger and Pietro.

References

• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750. (1980) Penguin Books Ltd. p. 447.
• Two Early Documented Works by Francesco Baratta the Younger, Marilyn Dunn. The Burlington Magazine (1991) pages 91–94.