2 - MONUMENT TO PIETRO TACCA (ENG)

NAME (code): Monument to Pietro Tacca

LOCATION’S AREA: 2 (Architectures, Squares and Monuments)

TYPOLOGY

Commemorative monument

ERA (anthropization)

High

PROVINCE

Carrara (MS)

DESCRIPTION

This statue is in a small garden near the Academy of Fine Arts. It depicts the artist as one of the Four Moors in chains—a role from the iconic work created by Pietro Tacca for the marble pedestal of the statue of Ferdinand I de’ Medici in Livorno. The statue is a creation by Carrara sculptor Carlo Fontana, completed around 1900.

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