PACETTI, Vincenzo
(b. 1746 Castel Bolognese, d. 1820 Roma)
Italian sculptor and restorer, particularly active in collecting and restoring classical sculptures such as the Barberini Faun (1799, Glyptothek, Munich), the Hope Dionysus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and the Athena of Velletri (1797, Musée du Louvre, Paris) and selling them to rich collectors as finished artefacts. He was the brother of Camillo Pacetti, also sculptor.
He also produced many reliefs and stucci on mythological themes for the Sala degli Imperatori (of which The Goat Amanthea and Perseus Freeing Andromeda are most notable) and the room housing Bernini’s Aeneas and Anchises, both at the Galleria Borghese, Rome. His other works in Rome are in San Salvatore in Lauro, Santo Spirito in Sassia, and the Palazzo Carpegna.
