Video: Angel of Sorrow: The Tragic Story of a Mysterious Monument Not Included in Tourist Brochures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Tourists coming to Rome, first of all, go to see the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums, the Roman Forum and the Capitoline Hill … The list of the most famous sights goes on for a long time. However, there are places in the Italian capital that are definitely worth a visit, although they are almost never mentioned in advertising brochures. One of these attractions is sculpture "Angel of Sorrow", installed in a Protestant cemetery.
The sculpture "Angel of Sorrow" is well known: its image can be seen on the album covers of Evanescence, Nightwish and other musical groups. However, many do not know about the history of the appearance of this sculpture.
The "Angel of Death" was installed in a Protestant cemetery. Here rest not only those who did not accept Catholicism, but also atheists, as well as those whose lives have become a protest against the norms that have taken root in society. The author of the sculpture is American William Wetmore Storey. A lawyer by training, he left America and lived in Rome from 1850. Here he created many sculptures of human height, among which the most famous are "Cleopatra", "Medea", "Sappho" …
The Angel of Sorrow was the last work of the master. The sculptor put into her all his boundless love for his wife, who died in January 1895. Less than a year later, without surviving the pain of loss, William Storey also died. He was buried in the same cemetery as his wife, and the "Angel of Death" became a tombstone for the Story couple.
Today, many copies of the sculpture have been installed in different countries. In particular, the "Angels of Death" can be seen in cemeteries in England, Luxembourg, Canada, Cuba and many US states.
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