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	Foggini, Giovanni Battista (b Florence, 25 April 1652; d Florence, 12 April 1725). Italian sculptor and architect. The foremost Florentine sculptor of the late Baroque period, he was first apprenticed to two painters successively but soon showed a greater propensity for sculpture. In 1673 he was sent by the young Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de’ Medici, to study in the newly instituted Accademia Fiorentina in Rome. There he remained for three years, studying under Ercole Ferrata, a sculptor of the second Baroque generation, and Ciro Ferri, a painter who was a close follower of Pietro da Cortona. His precocious ability at this period is demonstrated in a terracotta relief of the Slaying of the Niobids (Florence, Mus. Opificio Pietre Dure & Lab. Rest. Opere A.); a marble relief of the Adoration of the Shepherds (St Petersburg, Hermitage); and a bronze relief of the Crucifixion (Florence, Pitti), until recently ascribed to the court sculptor of the day, Ferdinando Tacca. These early works established his characteristic style, a novel late Baroque manner that changed little throughout his career.
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	Foggini, Giovanni Battista Florence, §II, 2(ii): Art life and organization, c 1600–c 1800 Florence, §III, 2: Centre of hardstone production Malta, §III, 3: Middle Ages and after: Sculpture assistants Fortini, Giovacchino Marcellini, Carlo Andrea Piamontini, Giuseppe Soldani, Massimiliano, §2: (iii): After 1628: Decorative and monumental work caskets Hardstones, §3(iii): Renaissance and after collaboration Cateni, Giovanni Camillo Reliquary, §I, 6(i): Post-medieval: Western Church Silvani: (2) Pierfrancesco Silvani Tomb, §VI, 3(ii): Western world, c 1600–c 1780: Changes in patronage engravings Medici, de’: (28) Ferdinando de’ Medici patrons and collectors Elhafen, Ignaz Medici, de’: (27) Cosimo III de’ Medici Medici, de’: (29) Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici pupils Baratta, Giovanni di Isidoro Baratta: (3) Giovanni di Isidoro Baratta Cornacchini, Agostino Cornacchini, Agostino Italy, §IV, 4(iii): Baroque sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: Florence and Tuscany Fuga, Ferdinando Fuga, Ferdinando, §1: Training and early career in Rome, before 1748 Galilei, Alessandro (Maria Gaetano) Galilei, Alessandro, §1: Early life and career in England, before 1720 Ghinghi, Francesco Ghinghi, Francesco Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli: (1) Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli Ticciati, Girolamo Ticciati, Girolamo Valle, Filippo della Valle, Filippo della Weber, Lorenzo Maria Weber, Lorenzo Maria sculpture reliefs Florence, §IV, 3: SS Annunziata Torricelli, Giuseppe Antonio statuettes Statuette, §III, 1(i): 18th century: Italy tomb Goa teachers Ferrata, Ercole Ferri, Ciro, §2: Rome, 1669–89

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