Italian sculptor and architect. Gian Lorenzo Bernini - in his maturity and during his later years when he worked mainly for churches - was surrounded by assistants of distinction. One of them was Antonio Giorgetti who spent his entire career in Rome. His most prominent sculpture is the Angel with the Sponge on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, where he was working under the direction of Bernini, who provided sketches and in some instances bozzetti for the angels. For Borromini's Capella Spada in the church of San Girolamo della Carità (1660), Giorgetti provided the two kneeling angels that hold up the jasper draperies that serve as a balustrade to the altar. By January 1660, Giorgetti was sufficiently closely linked to Cardinal Francesco Barberini to be referred to in several Barberini accounts as "nostro scultore." Giorgetti was the teacher of Lorenzo Ottoni. After the artist's death, his younger brother Giuseppe Giorgetti became head of the Giorgetti workshop. The recumbent statue of St Sebastian (c. 1671) in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le Mura on the via Appia, Rome, usually attributed to Antonio, is probably by his brother Giuseppe Giorgetti. //