Tommaso Righi

Tommaso Righi (1727–1802) was an Italian sculptor and stuccator with a practice in Rome.

His marble and stucco funeral monument to Carlo Pio Balestra (died 1776), patron of the Church of Santi Luca e Martina, in the Roman Forum,[1] is probably his most prominent commission.

His monument of cardinal Camillo Paolucci (died 1763) stands in a chapel of San Marcello al Corso, where its design was constrained by its having to form a pendant to the baroque monument facing it, of Fabrizio Paolucci, by Pietro Bracci (1726).

A great work, less often seen, is his altarpiece in the Church of S. Maria del Priorato, the chapel of the Villa of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Piranesi provided the design,[2] and Righi executed the great globe surrounded by putti in clouds, and Saint Basil in Glory supported by two angels.

One of his pupils was Giuseppe Ceracchi, sculptor of a portrait of George Washington and passionate republican.