1 of 16

19th Century Bronze Sculpture of Boy after Original Classical Greek with Thorn

$4,144.46List Price

About the Item

Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. There is a Roman marble version of this subject from the Medici collections in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The sculpture was one of the very few Roman bronzes that was never lost to sight.[clarification needed] The work was standing outside the Lateran Palace when the Navarrese rabbi Benjamin of Tudela saw it in the 1160s and identified it as Absalom, who "was without blemish from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head." It was noted around 1200 by the English visitor, Magister Gregorius, who noted in his De mirabilibus urbis Romae that it was ridiculously thought to be Priapus. It must have been one of the sculptures transferred to the Palazzo dei Conservatori by Pope Sixtus IV in the 1470s, though it is not recorded there until 1499-1500. In the Early Renaissance, it was celebrated through being one of the first Roman sculptures to be copied. There are bronze reductions by Severo da Ravenna and Jacopo Buonaccolsi (called "L'Antico" for his refined, classicizing figures). Buonaccolsi made a copy for Isabella d'Este around 1501 that is now in the Galleria Estense, Modena. He followed that work with an untraced pendant that perhaps reversed the pose. In 1500, Antonello Gagini made a full-size variant for a fountain in Messina, which is probably the bronze version that now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.In the sixteenth century, bronze copies made suitably magnificent ambassadorial gifts to the King of France and the King of Spain. Francis I of France was given a version by Ippolito II d'Este. The making of this copy was overseen by Giovanni Fancelli and Jacopo Sansovino, and the transaction effected by the courtly Benvenuto Cellini. It now is held in the Musée du Louvre. Philip II of Spain received a copy from Cardinal Giovanni Ricci. In the following century, Charles I of England had a bronze Spinario made by Hubert Le Sueur. Small bronze reductions were suitable for the less grand. A Still Life with 'Spinario' by Pieter Claesz, 1628, is conserved at the Rijksmuseum, and among the riches emblematic of the good life, it displays a small plaster model of the Spinario. There were also marble copies. The Medici Roman marble seems to have been among the collection of antiquities assembled in the gardens at San MarCo, Florence, which were the resort of the humanists in the circle of Lorenzo il Magnifico, who opened his collection to young artists to study from. The young Michelangelo profited from this early exposure to antique sculpture.[clarification needed] and it has been discussed whether Masaccio was influenced by the Medici Spinario or by the bronze he saw in Rome in the 1420s. However, Filippo Brunelleschi more certainly adapted the Spinario's pose for the left-hand attendant in 1401 for his bronze panel The Sacrifice of Isaac, which was his trial piece for the competition to design the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni. The formerly popular title Il Fedele ("The faithful boy") derived from an anecdote invented to give this intimate and naturalistic study a more heroic civic setting: the faithful messenger, a mere shepherd boy, had delivered his message to the Roman Senate first, only then stopping to remove a painful thorn from his foot: the Roman Senate commemorated the event. Such a story was already deflated in Paolo Alessandro Maffei's Raccolta di statue antiche e moderni... of 1704. Taking into account Hellenistic marble variants that have been discovered, of which the best is the Thorn-Puller from the Castellani collection now in the British Museum, none of which have the archaizing qualities of the bronze Spinario, recent scholarship has tended to credit this as a Roman bronze of the first century CE, with a head adapted from an archaic prototype.

Dimensions:
Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 7.49 in (19 cm)
Style:
Classical Greek (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
After 1800
Condition:
Seller Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2433316757841

Antique 19th Century Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

Boy With Thorn "Spinaro" Sculpture Alabaster 19th Century

$1,480

H 8.67 in Dm 5.12 in

19th Century French Bronze of a Classical Greek Warrior – Marble Base

Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant

This finely cast bronze sculpture, made in France in the late 19th century, is a striking representation of a classical Greek warrior — likely a hoplite — caught in the dynamic motio...

Category

Antique 1870s French Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

19th Century French Bronze of a Classical Greek Warrior – Marble Base

$947

Free Shipping

H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 3.15 in

Bronze Sculpture of Spinario or Boy With A Thorn

Located in Montreal, QC

This bronze figure of Spinario also known as Boy with Thorn and Fedele is a classical figure. It is beautifully cast with very fine detailing and dates to the 19th century, circa 187...

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bronze Sculpture of Spinario or Boy With A Thorn

$1,950

H 10.5 in W 6 in D 8 in

19th Century Classical Bronze Clock / Sculpture, by Aug. Moreau

By Auguste Moreau

Located in Brighton, Sussex

Bronze sculpture with brown patina including a clock and signed Auguste Moreau. It features a woman wearing a flowing dress who is standing on a globe. The title printed on a small p...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Classical Greek Table Clocks and Desk Clocks

Materials

Bronze

19th Century Classical Bronze Clock / Sculpture, by Aug. Moreau

$12,912

H 35.04 in W 9.45 in D 7.88 in

19th Century French Bronze Classical Sculpture Of A Warrior With Sword

By Louis Auguste Moreau

Located in Dublin, IE

An exceptional quality French 19th century bronze figure depicting the warrior with sword. Signed "L. Moreau". Circa 1880 French Beautiful Colour & Patina Condition: Excellent A...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

19th Century French Bronze Classical Sculpture Of A Warrior With Sword

$6,808

H 21.86 in Dm 7.09 in

Large 19th Century classical bronze torches

By F. Barbedienne Foundry

Located in Brighton, Sussex

A large and impressive 19th Century classical patinated bronze maiden torche, raised on a pedestal plinth. In the manner of Barbedienne. Batch 75 SNTKZ

Category

Antique 19th Century French Classical Greek Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Large 19th Century classical bronze torches

$18,349

H 78.75 in W 18.12 in D 18.12 in

Classical 19th Century Bronze of Mother and Child

Located in Brighton, Sussex

An enchanting classical 19th century patinated bronze statue of a semi clad seated maiden feeding water to a young cherub.

Category

Antique 19th Century French Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Classical 19th Century Bronze of Mother and Child

$7,883

H 26.78 in W 11.82 in D 9.85 in

Large 19th Century Classical Bronze statue of Amalthea

Located in Brighton, Sussex

A very good quality large 19th century bronze statue of a semi nude female of Amalthea in Marie Antoinette’s dairy. The original is marble from 1787.. There were different traditions regarding Amaltheia.[3] Amaltheia is sometimes represented as the goat who nurtured the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion ("Goat Mountain"),[4] sometimes as a goat-tending nymph[5] of uncertain parentage (the daughter of Oceanus,[6] Helios,[7] Haemonius,[8] or—according to Lactantius—Melisseus[9]).[10] The possession of multiple and uncertain mythological parents indicates wide worship of a deity in many cultures having varying local traditions. Other names, like Adrasteia, Ide, the nymph of Mount Ida...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Large 19th Century Classical Bronze statue of Amalthea

$14,951

H 33.86 in W 23.63 in D 17.33 in

A Plaster Cast of the Spinario or ‘Boy with Thorn’, 19th Century

Located in ARMADALE, VIC

A Plaster Cast of the Spinario or ‘Boy with Thorn’, 19th Century Description: The plaster cast after the original ‘Spinario’ now housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Rome), also ...

Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

A Plaster Cast of the Spinario or ‘Boy with Thorn’, 19th Century

$10,800

H 32.88 in W 22.05 in D 20.48 in

20th Century Terracotta Bust Sculpture Of A Classical Greek

Located in Houston, TX

20th Century Terracotta Bust Sculpture Of A Classical Greek. Offered is a handsome 20th century terra cotta bust of a classical Greek male. Expertly executed however it is unsigned.

Category