Antonio Montauti (1685 - 1740) was an 18th-century Italian sculptor active in Florence and Rome.
His patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria de' Medici, obtained the first known works circa 1708–9.
In 1733, he was recruited to Rome by Cardinal Alamanno Salviati and soon won the favor with Pope Clement XII, who in 1735 appointed him as surveyor for the Vatican.
John Molesworth", recently surfaced at the Christie's auction house, described as "the property of a lady" and having been originally purchased by Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield in around 1723-25 and kept thereafter at the latter's newly refurbished historic property Shirburn Castle until recent times, when they were sold for £79,250 each in 2009.
[2][3] In 1726, he made large marble statue of Saint Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi for the cloister of San Frediano in Cestello.