Francesco Maria Nocchieri, born in Ancona,The engraving of Nocchieri's Apollo with the antique Roman muses in Paolo Alessandro Maffei's Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne... dato in luce da Domenico de Rossi, Rome, 1704 (pls. CXI-CXX) is titled "Opera di Francesco Maria Nocchieri Anconitano". was a seventeenth-century Italian sculptor of minor reputation active in Rome, where he spent time in the large studio of Bernini. He worked largely as a restorer of antiquities. He was among the many Roman sculptors patronised by Christina, Queen of Sweden in her retirement in Rome;Lilian H. Zirpolo, "Christina of Sweden's Patronage of Bernini: The Mirror of Truth Revealed by Time" Woman's Art Journal 26.1 (Spring - Summer 2005:38-43) for Christina he executed an Apollo (1680) to complement a set of Roman sculptures of Muses that had been found at Hadrian's Villa, which were doubtless restored by Nocchieri;The Muses are at the Prado; they were identified as the group known to have come from Hadrian's Villa by Paul-Gustave Hübner "Le groupe des muses de la Villa d'Hadrien", Revue archéologique (Société française d'archéologie classique) :359- the Apollo is now at La Granja de San Ildefonso.Museo Nacional del Prado:Colección de esculturas de Cristina de Suecia The largest collection of Nocchieri's sculptures today are in the Gardens of Aranjuez, Madrid. A terracotta bozzetto at the Ashmolean Museum represents Apollo holding his lyre, attentive to the Muses.acc. no.WA.OA291. Nicholas Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols., Oxford 1992:68; Cultural Property, purchased ca. 1950
Some other sculptors in Rome renowned for their restorations Carlo Albacini Orfeo Boselli Ippolito Buzzi Bartolomeo Cavaceppi Ercole Ferrata Francesco Fontana Giovanni Battista Piranesi Vincenzo Pacetti
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