Detail of sorrowful Angels by Antonio Canova 1819

Detail of sorrowful Angels by Antonio Canova 1819

Detail of sorrowful angels, there wings folded and heads inclined over upside-down torches which is about to extinguish. Monument to the Royal Stuarts in St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican in Rome. It commemorates the last three members of the Royal House of Stuart: James Francis Edward Stuart, his elder son Charles Edward Stuart, and his younger son, Henry Benedict Stuart. The Jacobites recognized these three princes as kings of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Detail of sorrowful Angels by Antonio Canova 1819