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The name of Giorgetti is one which is not entirely unknown to historians of seventeenth-century sculpture; ever since the first edition of Titi's guide to Rome, Antonio has been recorded as the sculptor of the Angels supporting the balustrade of the Spada chapel in San Girolamo della Carità (Fig. 1) and of the Angel with the Sponge on the Ponte Sant’ Angelo (Fig. 15),1 and the Giorgetti's masterpiece, the St. Sebastian in San Sebastiano fuori le Mura (text fig. 1) has figured in most books on Roman Baroque sculpture. But the confusion surrounding the authorship of the St. Sebastian is a measure of the inadequacy of our knowledge of the brothers’ work, for when Pesci first discovered that it was carved by Gioseppe he still believed that there was only one Giorgetti, and attempted to transfer the whole of Antonio's oeuvre to Gioseppe,2 while many eminent art historians, not to mention most guides in the church, continue to repeat the by now traditional attribution to Antonio. Only in 1967, with the publication by Cesare D'Onofrio of a mandato of 1678 in favor of Gioseppe,3 did a list of his works become generally available, but it was incomplete and unanalysed, and could hardly provide a clear impression of this obscure sculptor's personality.
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