Vintage Bronze Sculpture Boy with Thorn Spinario 4"

Description

Vtg. Vintage Bronze Sculpture Boy with Thorn Spinario 4" tall. Bronze or Brass, color is black matte. I am not sure what metal this is. It is heavy about 1 pound.
Boy with Thorn
, also called
Fedele
(
Fedelino
) or
Spinario
, is a Greco-Roman bronze sculpture,
his statuette is based on a famous Roman bronze statue of a boy sitting on a tree stump pulling a thorn ("spina") from his foot. The sculpture had been known since the 12th century when it stood outside the Lateran Palace in Rome. At the end of the 15th century, it was transferred to the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline Hill, where it can still be
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.
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