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Antonio Giorgetti (died 1670) was an Italian sculptor who passed his career in Rome, a disciple of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His masterpiece[1] is his Saint Sebastian in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura on the via Appia, Rome, but his most prominent sculpture, doubtless, is the Angel with the Sponge on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, where he was working under the direction of Bernini, who provided sketches and in some instances bozzetti for the angels.[2]
Saint Sebastian in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura

For Borromini's Capella Spada in the church of San Girolamo della Carità (1660), Giorgetti provided the two kneeling angels that hold up the jasper draperies that serve as a balustrade to the altar.[3]

By January 1660, Giorgetti was suficiently closely linked to Cardinal Francesco Barberini to be referred to in several Barberini accounts as nostro scultore.[4]

Notes

1. ^ According to Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (1965) p. 395.
2. ^ Giorgetti's manner is distinguished from Bernini's own in M.S. Weil, "The Angels of the Ponte Sant'Angelo: A Comparison of Bernini's Sculpture to the Work of Two Collaborators"Art Journal, 1971; the commission is examined in detail in C. D'Onofrio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini e gli angeli di ponte S. Angelo, 1981.
3. ^ Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (1965) p. 236f.
4. ^ Peter Fusco, "A Portrait Medallion of Pope Alexander VIII by Lorenzo Ottoni in the J. Paul Getty Museum", The Burlington Magazine, 1997; Lorenzo Ottoni trained in Giorgetti's studio.

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