Lost Italian Statue by Trevi Fountain Artist Discovered in Salvage Yard Among the Garden Ornaments
A marble model of Pope Clement XII, made by sculptor Pietro Bracci as a preparatory piece for a larger bronze, was found in a salvage yard in Wiltshire after a builder noticed its quality. It had long been used as a garden ornament at a country estate in England. The piece was offered for sale at auction by Woolley & Wallis, with experts describing it as a rare survivor from eighteenth-century Rome.
