Angel with the Crown of Thorns - Bernini
by Weston Westmoreland
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Angel with the Crown of Thorns - Bernini
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Angel with the Crown of Thorns by Bernini,1669. Rome, Italy.
Marble sculpture of an angel with the Crown of Thorns carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1669.
The Bridge of Angels (in Italian, Ponte Sant'Angelo) spans the Tiber River in Rome and received the pilgrims arriving in the Vatican. A series of sculptures of angels was commissioned by Pope Clement IX for the Ponte Sant'Angelo, the Bridge of Angels.
Bernini designed five sculptures for each side of the bridge, with statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the eastern bank. At the base of each sculpture is a line from the Bible in Latin. Bernini sculpted two of them himself, leaving the rest to his students.
The two statues Bernini sculpted were considered too beautiful to leave outdoors and were replaced with copies. The Pope kept the originals which later returned to the Bernini Family and were then donated to the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, right across the street from the palace where Bernini lived, worked and died.
Bernini was to the Baroque what Michelangelo was to the Renaissance and his works are many and exquisite. You can find more sculptures by Bernini and others at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/statues+sculptures+carvings
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February 10th, 2019
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