Francesco Algarotti - Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa
This tomb dedicated to Francesco Algarotti (d1764), in the Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, was designed by Mauro Antonio Tesi ⓘ. It was erect on the instructions of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
18th century
Galileo Galilei Tomb - Santa Croce Florence
The tomb of Galileo Galilei (d1642) at Santa Croce in Florence was erected in 1737. It was designed by Giulio Foggini and contains a bust of Galileo Galilei (by Giovanni Battista Foggini ⓘ), and figures representing Astronomy (by Vincenzo Foggini ⓘ), and Geometry (by Girolamo Ticciati ⓘ).
Judge John Powell - Gloucester Cathedral
This marble monument to Judge John Powell (d1714) is by Thomas Green of Camberwell. John Powell presided over the trial of Jane Wenham, one of the last people convicted of witchcraft in England.
Moses Macham Brass- Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire
Brass monument to Moses Macham (d1712).
Niccolò Machiavelli Tomb - Santa Croce Florence
This tomb, dedicated to Niccolò Machiavelli (d1527), was created by Innocenzo Spinazzi ⓘ in 1787, and is in Santa Croce Florence.
Nollekens, Joseph
Active: 1760–1823
Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) was one of the leading English sculptors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, renowned for his portrait busts, ideal figures, and monuments executed in a refined Neoclassical style. His career spans the period in which British sculpture fully absorbed and adapted Continental classical models into a confident national idiom.
Sarah Morley monument - Gloucester Cathedral.
This monument by John Flaxman ⓘ is to Sarah Morley (d1784) who died a few days after giving birth whilst travelling back to England from India. Both Sarah and her child were buried at sea.
Smith of Warwick
Active: late 17th century – mid 18th century
[no-context]Smith of Warwick ⓘ refers to the family workshop established by Francis Smith (1672–1738) and continued by his son William Smith (1705–1764), active across Warwickshire, the Midlands, and beyond from the late seventeenth through the mid eighteenth century. The workshop was one of the most prolific and influential provincial centres for architectural and monumental sculpture in early Georgian England.
Spinazzi, Innocenzo
Active: mid to late 18th century
Innocenzo Spinazzi (1726–1798) was an Italian sculptor active in Florence during the later eighteenth century. He is best known for allegorical and decorative sculpture executed in a refined Neoclassical style, marking the transition from late Baroque expressiveness to a more controlled classical idiom.
Taylor, Robert
Active: 1712–1742
Robert Taylor (1690–1742) was a leading English sculptor and mason of the early eighteenth century, active within the professional statuary and architectural tradition of the early Georgian period. Apprenticed to Richard Garbut, he is recorded as active from 1712, and went on to hold major institutional appointments that place him among the most important sculptors of his generation.
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