Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Spinario
Alternate Title:
Boy with Thorn
Image View:
Detail, head
Creator:
after unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor); unknown (Italian sculptor)
Location:
repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. CLXXVI
Location Note:
Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5; Borghese Collection
GPS:
41.914 12.492
Date:
copy, ca. 1580-1599 (creation); original, 1st century CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian; Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Hellenistic; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
white marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
human figure
Description:
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. Recent scholarship has tended to credit this original as a Roman bronze of the first century CE, with a head adapted from an archaic prototype. This is an anonymous marble copy from the end of the 16th century. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CAVAS-BG-AN-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Spinario