Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-90
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
123 (original number), 215 (original number), and 8-5090 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.158 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Louvre Museum, Paris
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-90, described as Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-90, described as Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-90, described as Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-90, described as Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-90, described as Cast of boy drawing a thorn from his foot, called Lo Spinario, 5th century Greek sculpture. From a bronze original in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the Capitoline Mount, Rome. Critics of an earlier day couples the Spinario with the late Greek group Boy and Goose. Bother were supposed to show an advance of Greek taste into fancy subjects (genre) and portrayal of children. Kekulee, Arch. Ztg. 1883 showed the Roman statue’s close kinship with the sculptures of the Olympian pediments (Apollo, squatting youth). Furtwaengler, Der Dornauszierher u. der Knabe mit der Gans. The statue is preserved entire. Only its eyes, which were of the stone or glass, are missing in the bronze. The plinth is modern. Published by Rayet, Monuments de l’art Antique. I, plate 35. Rayet argues vainly for the authorship of an eclectic sculptor. Marble imitations of the same Greek statue are naturalistic. Fancy subjects were little familiar to 5th Century Greek art, but an occasion for the portrayal of a dedicator so can easily be imagined: victor in boy’s race--Lokros founder of Lokroi, who founded a city on the spot where a thorn stopped him.

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