Spinario (Boy Pulling a Thorn from His Foot) probably modeled by 1496, cast ca. 1501 Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Italian This is the best surviving example of Anticos Spinario - a boy pulling a thorn from his foot - which takes as its starting point a long-celebrated bronze figure, executed in the 3rd century BC and now, as in Anticos day, to be admired in Rome. The composition is the same as that of the Hellenistic bronze, but this is much more than a reproduction. A favorite of the Gonzaga family, the sculptor-goldsmith Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1460-1528) earned - or perhaps adopted - the soubriquet Antico to signal his dedication to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, and in particular by his brilliant bronze reductions of famous antique statuary. In many instances his sources were Roman marble fragments, more or less complete. These were ‘restored by Antico who by rendering them in bronze evoked both the Greek large-scale originals that the Romans had copied and

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Spinario (Boy Pulling a Thorn from His Foot) probably modeled by 1496, cast ca. 1501 Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Italian This is the best surviving example of Anticos Spinario - a boy pulling a thorn from his foot - which takes as its starting point a long-celebrated bronze figure, executed in the 3rd century BC and now, as in Anticos day, to be admired in Rome. The composition is the same as that of the Hellenistic bronze, but this is much more than a reproduction. A favorite of the Gonzaga family, the sculptor-goldsmith Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1460-1528) earned - or perhaps adopted - the soubriquet Antico to signal his dedication to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, and in particular by his brilliant bronze reductions of famous antique statuary. In many instances his sources were Roman marble fragments, more or less complete. These were ‘restored by Antico who by rendering them in bronze evoked both the Greek large-scale originals that the Romans had copied and

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