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A sculptor, architect and medalist, born in Settignano. Fortini was a student of Carlo Marcellini and Guiseppe Piamontini. His earliest works in sculpture were executed under the direction of Giovanni Battista Foggini and he succeeded Foggini as architect of the Royal Gallery and of the Rich Chapel of S. Lorenzo. In 1701 he signed the tomb of General Philipp Bertram Degenhard Joseph von Hochkirchen in Cologne. He executed marble portraits and medals of the grand ducal family. See Thieme-Becker 12, pp. 228-29; Lankheit, pp. 175-78, 192-93, 226 (documents); Detroit, pp. 80-85. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976