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Renaissance Copy of the Spinario in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
Spinario
Bronze
Antonello Gagini (Sicilian, Palermo, 1478-1536)
Italian, 1500
Accession # 32.121
This statue is a copy of the Hellenistic bronze boy extracting a thorn from his foot in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, universally known as the Spinario. Gagini's version once served as a fountain figure at the top of a staircase in Palazzo Alcontres, Messina. Inscribed near the foot were his signature and the date 1500.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Bronze
Antonello Gagini (Sicilian, Palermo, 1478-1536)
Italian, 1500
Accession # 32.121
This statue is a copy of the Hellenistic bronze boy extracting a thorn from his foot in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, universally known as the Spinario. Gagini's version once served as a fountain figure at the top of a staircase in Palazzo Alcontres, Messina. Inscribed near the foot were his signature and the date 1500.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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