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Ottoni, Lorenzo
(b Rome, 25 Nov 1658; d Rome, 1736). Italian sculptor. He trained with Antonio Giorgetti (d 1670) and later with Ercole Ferrata, probably remaining in the latter’s workshop as an assistant. Working mainly in marble, Ottoni’s earliest commissions date from the 1670s, and an over life-size bust of Urban VIII in the main square at Pesaro, ordered by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, was completed by 1684 under the auspices of Francesco’s brother Cardinal Carlo Barberini. Carlo engaged the sculptor to execute the monument to Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1682) in St Peter’s in Rome. The bust of the Cardinal on the monument is flanked by two winged figures of Fame, one with a trumpet and one with a coat of arms recalling the motif above the archway to the Scala Regia in the Vatican designed by Bernini and executed by Ferrata in 1664. Ottoni interpreted the theme in a quieter, more intimate manner, though the deeply undercut draperies create an interplay of light and shadow that owes much to the earlier model. Carlo also commissioned several portrait sculptures of members of the Barberini family from Ottoni during the 1680s. These include the busts of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, Cardinal Antonio Barberini (both Rome, Pal. Braschi) and Prince Maffeo Barberini (San Francisco, CA, de Young Mem. Mus.), who died in 1685.
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