Francesco Maria Nocchieri

Francesco Maria Nocchieri, born in Ancona,^[1] was a seventeenth-century Italian sculptor of minor reputation active in Rome, where he spent time in the large studio of Bernini. He worked largely as a restorer of antiquities. He was among the many Roman sculptors patronised by Christina, Queen of Sweden in her retirement in Rome;^[2] for Christina he executed an Apollo (1680) to complement a set of Roman sculptures of Muses that had been found at Hadrian's Villa, which were doubtless restored by Nocchieri;^[3] the Apollo is now at La Granja de San Ildefonso.^[4] The largest collection of Nocchieri's sculptures today are in the Gardens of Aranjuez, Madrid. A terracotta bozzetto at the Ashmolean Museum represents Apollo holding his lyre, attentive to the Muses.^[5]

Some other sculptors in Rome renowned for their restorations

• Carlo Albacini
• Orfeo Boselli
• Ippolito Buzzi
• Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
• Ercole Ferrata
• Francesco Fontana
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi
• Vincenzo Pacetti