Episode 28: The Ponte Sant’Angelo, Bernini, & the Stuff of Angels

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Sources:

• Weil, Mark. The History and Decoration of the Ponte S. Angelo. University Park: The Pennsylvania State Press University, 1974.
• Hibbard, Howard. Bernini. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975.
• Mormando, Franco. Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
• Warwick, Genevieve. Bernini: Art as Theatre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
• Cardilli Alloisi, Luisa and Maria Grazia Tolomeo Speranza. La Via degli angeli: Il restauro della decorazione scultorea di Ponte Sant’Angelo. Rome: De Luca Edizioni d’Arte, 1988.
• Tolomeo, Maria Grazia. “Ponte Sant’Angelo.” In La festa degli artisti a Tor Cervara. Edited by Paolo Grassi. Rome: Fratelli Palombi, 1990.
• McPhee, Sarah. Bernini’s Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
• Ponte Sant’Angelo in Virtual Reality! 360 degree view!
• Official website for the Castel Sant’Angelo — as bridges don’t typically have official websites 🙂
• “Sketching in Clay for the Angels on the Ponte Sant’Angelo” (Youtube video from Kimbell Art Museum)
• Official website of the Borghese Gallery
• Article on the Ponte Sant’Angelo – Medium.com

A Few Angels & Demons:

• Hans Zimmer’s Soundtrack – Angels & Demons
• Clip from the movie – Ponte and Castel Sant’Angelo
• Article about the filming of Angels & Demons

Images:

No.	Title	Sculptor	Inscription	Image
1	Angel with the Column	Antonio Raggi	Tronus meus in columna[4]
2	Angel with the Whips	Lazzaro Morelli	In flagella paratus sum[5]
3	Angel with the Crown of Thorns	Gian Lorenzo Bernini and son Paolo (original at Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, copy by Paolo Naldini)	In aerumna mea dum configitur spina[6]
4	Angel with the Sudarium(Veronica’s Veil)	Cosimo Fancelli	Respice faciem Christi tui[7]
5	Angel with the Garment and Dice	Paolo Naldini	Super vestimentum meum miserunt sortem[8]
6	Angel with the Nails	Girolamo Lucenti	Aspicient ad me quem confixerunt[9]
7	Angel with the Cross	Ercole Ferrata	Cuius principatus super humerum eius[10]
8	Angel with the Superscription	Gian Lorenzo Bernini and son Paolo (original at Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, copy by Giulio Cartari	Regnavit a ligno deus.[11]
9	Angel with the Sponge	Antonio Giorgetti	Potaverunt me aceto.[12]
10	Angel with the Lance	Domenico Guidi	Vulnerasti cor meum.[13]

Table from Wikipedia showing which assistants made what angel

Happy listening!

-L