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‘You can touch the tool marks he made’ Giuseppe Piamontini’s study for a statue still standing in a Florentine church
Christie’s specialist Donald Johnston marvels at the terracotta model for a magnificent statue still on display in a niche high above the altar of the church of Santi Michele e Gaetano
On 30 May 1694, with the help of a mason and a labourer, Giuseppe Piamontini (1664-1742) installed his colossal marble sculpture of Saint Mark and a lion in a niche high above the altar of the church of Santi Michele e Gaetano in Florence. It still stands there today.