The last Piamontini on show at TEFAF Maastricht 2017

Of great interest to connoisseurs of sculpture will be the signed Milo of Croton, dated 1740, the last documented marble by Giuseppe Piamontini (1664-1742), one of the most important late Baroque Florentine sculptors who worked in both marble and bronze. Based on a model for a bronze statuette known in three casts, one of which is in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, it depicts the celebrated 6th century BC wrestler who came from the Greek city of Croton in southern Italy.