Lost Baroque Sculpture Found at Salvage Yard

A carved marble portrait of Pope Clement XII seated on a throne, newly attributed to Pietro Bracci, c.1736, as a maquette for a life-size bronze sculpture that was destroyed in 1798. The maquette measures 68 cm (about 26 3/4 in.) tall. Images courtesy: Woolley & Wallis.The heavy statue, just over two feet tall, was for sale at a salvage yard in Wiltshire, England, where, according to People magazine, it was a concrete garden figure. One customer, suspecting it was something more, bought it f