Sheet with a Study after the "Spinario" and Other Sculptures: Detail of the "spinario"

Detail of the "spinario" ; On the verso is a sketch of a helmet. The statue depicted at center is the celebrated Hellenistic bronze known as the Spinario ("Thorn-Puller"). Gossaert certainly worked from the original, which, then as now, is at the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. The sandaled foot at the right is from a statue of a genius (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli). Although the drawing gives the impression of being a random collection of studies after antique sculpture, the symmetrical composition and precise execution suggest that it was based on earlier studies made on the spo... Mehr ...