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At the end of the seventeenth century in Italy it was customary that sculptural commissions of outstanding importance were placed in Rome. However, most Italian centres had sculptors who were capable of satisfying up-to-date taste. These artists kept abreast of the stylistic developments in Rome. The most distinguished Florentine sculptor of the period was Ercole Ferrata's pupil Giovanni Battista Foggini. Giovanni Baratta was the best among Foggini's younger pupils.
Baratta was was a member of a great family of sculptors from Carrara, in his painterly Baroque a typically Florentine reserve may be detected.
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