Angel of Grief

"Angel of Grief" is a 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story which serves as the grave stone of the artist and his wife at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. A replica made in 1906 exists at the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University. It replaced one created in 1901 that was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Copies or replicas in the United States

*Cassard Monument, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, 1909 or 1910:pictured in "Victorian Cemetery Art"

*Chapman H Hyams tomb, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - early 20th century:pictured in "New Orleans Architecture, Volume lll: the Cemeteries"

*Di Cesare Monument, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY

*Hooper monument, Hingham, Massachusetts -:pictured in "Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern"

*Lathrop Memorial, Stanford Arboretum, Stanford University, California, Antonio Bernieri, sculptor, 1908: pictured at http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3597403

*Pool Memorial, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California:pictured in "Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California"

*Trorlicht Monument, Calvary Cemetery. St. Louis, Missouri:pictured in "Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland"

* Three Texas Angels of Grief [http://www.texasescapes.com/Cemeteries/Three-Weeping-Angels.htm]

* Oakland Cemetery Little Rock, Arkansas

* Chapel of the Chimes Memorial, California, Hayward

* Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi

Copies or replicas in the United Kingdom

* Penarth County Cemetery Cardiff, Wales

Copies or replicas in Costa Rica

* Cementerio General San José, Costa Rica:pictured in "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2547536"

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Reproductions in popular culture

Pictures of the statue appear on the covers of "Evanescence EP" by Evanescence, "Once" by Nightwish, "Embossed Dream in Four Acts" by Odes Of Ecstasy. All three bands have Heavy metal roots, operatic female vocals, and gothic influences. It is also featured on the album art of "The Edges of Twilight" by The Tea Party and "Love is Against the Grain" by Dime Store Prophets".

References

*Bliss, Harry A., "Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern", Harry A Bliss, Monument Photographer, Buffalo N.Y., 1912 p176
*Brown, John Gary, "Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland", University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1994
*Culbertson Randall, "Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California", Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Chelsea Vermont, 1989
*Christovich, Huber, McDowell, photographs by Betsy Swanson, "New Orleans Architecture, Volume lll: the Cemeteries", Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, 1997
*Gillon, Edmond V., "Victorian Cemetery Art", Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1972
*Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, "America's Cemetery Sculpture", unpublished manuscript
*Richman, Jeff, author of "Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery New York’s Buried Treasure", phone interview with E. E. Kvaran, September, 2006