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ID: 700009079
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009079
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Angel with the Crown of Thorns (statue; Gian Lorenzo Bernini and son Paolo ; commissioned in 1669; Sant'Andrea delle Fratte (Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy)...)
Note: Original is now located at Sant'Andrea delle Fratte; copy on the bridge is by Paolo Naldini. This record is for the original.
Titles:
Angel with the Crown of Thorns (preferred,C,U,English-P,,A)
Angelo con la corona di spine (C,U,Italian,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
statue [300047600] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by subject type>)

Classifications:
sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: commissioned in 1669

Creator Display:
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and son Paolo [preferred]
sculptor Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680) [500032022]
sculptor Bernini, Paolo Valentino (Italian sculptor, born 1648) [500372788]
Locations:
Current: Sant'Andrea delle Fratte (Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy) [500372789] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Display Materials: marble
marble (rock) [300011443]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: unavailable
Cultures:
Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Baroque [300021147] (preferred,N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:
religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
angel (spirit) [300379004]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)
Instruments of the Passion [901000918]
.....((Themes surrounding Jesus Christ, Christian allegory, symbolism, theme, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: In aerumna mea dum configitur spina
Related Works:
former architectural context was .... Ponte Sant'Angelo [700009075]
..........fortress; unknown ancient Roman; under Hadrian; completed in 134 CE; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures
............... Angels of Ponte Sant'Angelo
Sources and Contributors:
Angel with the Crown of Thorns........ [VP]
........ Tronzo, St. Peter's in the Vatican (2005)
........ Vatican Museums [online] (2000-) Important restorations: the Bernini Angels
Angelo con la corona di spine........ [VP]
........ Vatican Museums [online] (2000-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Vatican Museums [online] (2000-)
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