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A pupil of Alessandro Algardi, Lucenti was active as a sculptor and a bronze caster. He became an engraver at the papal mint in 1668 under Morone-Mola and worked there until 1679 in competition with Giovanni Hamerani. See Forrer 3, pp. 487-88; Thieme-Becker 23, p. 436; Bulgari 2, p. 59; R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, London 1958, p. 210 (for Lucenti's monumental sculpture). --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976