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22-JUN-2013

Angel with the Garment and Dice - Ponte SantAngelo in Rome

According to Wikipedia, Ponte Sant'Angelo was once the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, meaning the Bridge of Hadrian, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian, to span the Tiber, from the city center to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber. The bridge is now solely pedestrian, and provides a photogenic vista of the Castel Sant'Angelo. In the seventh century, under Pope Gregory I, both the castle and the bridge took on the name Sant'Angelo. For centuries after the 16th century, the bridge was used to expose the bodies of the executed. In 1535, Pope Clement VII allocated the toll income of the bridge to erecting the statues of the apostle Peter and Paul to which subsequently the four evangelists and the patriarchs were added to other representing statues Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. In 1669 Pope Clement IX commissioned replacements for the aging stucco. One of his last large projects, Bernini's plans called for ten angels holding instruments of the Passion: he personally only finished the two originals of the Angels, but these were kept by Clement IX for his own pleasure. They are now in the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, also in Rome. This angel, the "Angel with the Garment and Dice" was created by Paolo Naldini.


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Stephanie24-May-2017 21:42
Beautiful capture of this statue Charlie! V
At first I thought you were traveling in Italy... ;)
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