Vincenzo Pacetti

Vincenzo Pacetti
Born3 April 1746
Died28 July 1820 (1820-07-29) (aged 74)
NationalityItalian

Vincenzo Pacetti (1746–1820) was an Italian sculptor and restorer[1] from Castel Bolognese, particularly active in collecting and freely restoring and completing classical sculptures such as the Barberini Faun (1799 – now in the Glyptothek, Munich)— his most famous work— the Hope Dionysus (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[2]) and the Athena of Velletri (1797 – now in the Louvre) and selling them on to rich collectors as finished artefacts. He was the brother of Camillo Pacetti.

  1. ^ Pacetti as sculptor is discussed by Hugh Honour, "Vincenzo Pacetti", Connoisseur, 46 (1960:174ff, and as restorer by Nancy H. Ramage, "Restorer and Collector: Notes on Eighteenth-Century Recreations of Roman Statues", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volume 1, The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (2002:61–77).
  2. ^ Hemingway, Authors: Colette. "Retrospective Styles in Greek and Roman Sculpture | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 28 September 2023.