(b Florence, 1664; d Florence, 1742). Italian sculptor. He began his career in Giovanni Battista Foggini’s studio in Florence. From 1681 to 1686 he studied at the Accademia Fiorentina in Rome under Ercole Ferrata and Ciro Ferri. In 1685, with fellow students Giovanni Camillo Cateni, Francesco Ciaminghi (d 1736) and Antonio Francesco Andreozzi (1663–1730), he executed roundel reliefs in glazed terracotta of the Stations of the Cross from designs by Ferri commissioned by Cosimo III, in the convent church of S Pietro d’Alcantara in Montelupo, his contribution being the Deposition, Entombment (Montelupo, SS Quirico e Lucia all’ Ambrogiana) and Flagellation (ex-art market, Florence, see Visonà, p. 66). The last of these is particularly instructive, because Ferri’s wax model for it still survives (Berlin, Skulpgal.). It has been suggested (Montagu) that the bronze statuette of Jupiter (Philadelphia, PA, Mus. A.; and Oxford, Ashmolean), which shows the influence of Alessandro Algardi, may have been executed as a studio exercise during Piamontini’s student years in Rome. (A statuette of Juno, in the same collection, which is dated stylistically to the 1690s, was later paired with the Jupiter.)

• Piamontini, Giuseppe
  • collaboration
    • Cateni, Giovanni Camillo
    • Ferri, Ciro, §2: Rome, 1669–89
  • patrons and collectors
    • Medici, de’: (27) Cosimo III de’ Medici
    • Medici, de’: (29) Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici
    • Medici, de’: (30) Gian Gastone de’ Medici
  • pupils
    • Fortini, Giovacchino
    • Montauti, Antonio
  • reproductions in porcelain
    • Doccia
  • works
    • Statuette, §III, 1(i): 18th century: Italy