(b Florence, 6 March 1671; d Florence, 1744). Italian sculptor, architect, medallist and writer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini in Florence and, like many of his contemporaries, studied at the Tuscan Accademia Granducale in Rome. His earliest surviving works are bronze medals: Giulio Benedetto Lorenzini (1701) and Lorenzo Bellini (c. 1704). None of his work in marble seems to have survived from his early years in Florence and Rome. In 1708 he left Florence for Vienna, where he is said to have been sculptor and architect to Emperor Joseph I until the latter’s death in 1712. He then returned to Florence. After Foggini’s death in 1725 Ticciati began to receive many important commissions. His marble tomb of Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1726; Florence, S Felice) follows the style established by Foggini, as does his life-size marble statue of Geometry for the tomb of Galileo Galilei (erected 1737) in Santa Croce, Florence. Ticciati’s main commission of the 1730s was the marble high altar (erected 1732, dismantled 1912) in the Baptistery, Florence, with a central life-size statue of St John the Baptist flanked by four angels and a series of oval reliefs illustrating the saint’s life. Other important commissions followed: statues of St Andrew and St John (1732) for the Basilica of Mafra, Portugal; the statue of St John of Salerno (1737) in S Maria Novella, Florence; the decoration of the staircase (1738) in the hospital of S Giovanni di Dio, Florence; and the marble altar reliefs of St Catherine of Ricci (1738) in S Vincenzo, Prato.

• Ticciati, Girolamo
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