Spinario - statue CensusID: 155720

Spinario - statue
CensusID: 155720
Alias
Thornpuller
Dornauszieher
Removing a Thorn
Location untraced
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
sculpture
statue
unknown
unknown
yes
01
figure
male
nude
seated
curled hair
bent forward
right foot over left knee
holding left foot with left hand
extracting thorn with the right hand
rock (?)
History
Date of Creation
100 BC, around
Style
Late Hellenistic Period
Artist(s)/Creator(s) unknown
Relationships
Replica(s) known to Renaissance:
Roma, Musei Capitolini: Spinario - statue
Later known Replica(s):
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Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
London, British Museum
inv. 1755
Alias: Spinario Castellani
Found in Rome in 1874
Provenance: formerly Coll. Castellani
Height: 73 cm
Material: marble
used as fountain-decoration
(two boreholes in the plinth)
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Cherchell, Musee
inv. S 140 (156)
Found in Algeria, Cherchel, thermae (1844)
Date: Antonine (0138-0193)
Height: 75 cm (without plinth)
Material: marble
Present condition: considerably damaged, loss of head,
neck and parts of the right arm
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Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Paris, Musée du Louvre
inv. Rés. Napoleon 116 (formerly 255)
Height: 78 cm (with plinth)
Provenance: formerly Coll. Borghese
Material: marble
Present condition: damaged/ fragmentary
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Firenze, Uffizi
inv. 177
Found in Rome.
Height: 84,5 cm
Material: marble
Present Condition: restored
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Berlin, SMBPK, Antikensammlung
inv. 485
Height: 82,5 cm
Provenance: Villa Aldobrandini
Present Condition: supplemented torso
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Berlin, SMBPK, Antikensammlung
inv. TC 8626 (485)
Date: c. 135 (BC)
Found in Priene, House 33 East (24.3.1898)
Height: 16, 8 cm
Material: terracotta
Present condition: restored
adaption of the Spinario Castellani (Fuchs 1969,
Himmelmann
1975) and the Spinario Capitolini; earliest SpinarioReplic (Zanker 1974)
Location
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Égyptiennes
Inventory no.inv. Br 4382
Note(s)
Spinario adaption
Description: humpy men extracting a thorn from his left feet
Height: 7 cm
Material: bronze
Date: late 2nd cent BC
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
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Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum
inv. ?
Spinario adaption
Description: bearded old men with cap extracting a thorn
from his
left feet, seated on a rock
Provenance: Collection Pierpont Morgan
Material: bronze
Date: 2nd cent. BC
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Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Paris, Collection Gaule romaine
inv. 28005
Dimensions: 15,5 x 7,4 cm
Material: terracotta (white)
Provenance: formerly Coll. Esmonnot, no. 79, sold at
06.06.1884,
Found in Toulon-sur-Allier (Allier)
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Paris, Collection Gaule romaine
inv. 28040
Dimensions: 12,5 x 4,7cm (7,5 cm plinth)
Material: terracotta (white)
Provenance: formerly Coll. Esmonnot, no. 145, sold
06.06.1884,
found at Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre (Allier)
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Paris, Collection Gaule romaine
inv. 61157
Dimensions: 12,9 x 7 cm
Material: terracotta (white)
Provenance: formerly Coll. Plicque, sold at 23.07.1890,
found in
Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme)
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Liverpool, Ince Blundell Collection
inv. ?
Spinario adaption
Description: Figurative Relief with landscape, thornpuller
sitting on a rock next to a tree
Date: 100-50 BC
Provenance: formerly Ince Blundell
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
inv. 1898,25
Spinario adaption,
Found in Trier (Engelstraße), late 19th cent.
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
inv. ?
Spinario Adaption as part of a Candelabra (?)
Provenance: Found in Naukratis, purchased in Kairo,
formerly
Collection Fr. W. v. Bissing
Material: bronze
Height: 5 cm,
Date: 2nd cent. (BC)
Location
Kobenhavn, Thorvaldsens Museum
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Inventory no.
Note(s)
inv. I1165
Dimensions: 1,1 x 0,9 cm
Description: seated satyr, extracting a thorn from his
own
foot.
Provenance: purchased by Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome
between 1797 and 1838
Graeco-Roman ringstone
Date: 30 BC-200
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Modena, Museo Estense
inv. GE 004167
Spinario
Dimensions: 92 x 50 x 36 cm
Material: Italic marble
Date: 1st century BC
Provenance: discovered in Rome (Palatino) in 1566
References
Bibliography:
> Tadeusz Zielinski: Der Feueranbläser und der Dornauszieher, in: Rheinisches Museum N.F. 39
(1884), pp. 73-117 > pp. 100-117
> Wilhelm Roscher: Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, NabaiothesPasicharea, vol. 3.1, Nabaiothes-Pasicharea, Leipzig 1897-1909 > Lemma: "Pan", cols. 1446-1448
(Konrad Wernicke)
> Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing: Mitteilungen aus meiner Sammlung II, in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 32 (1907), pp. 71-78 > pp. 73-77
> Catalogue of the engraved gems and cameos. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities in the British
Museum, ed. by Henry Beauchamp Walters, London 1926 > p. 173 no. 1592, pl. XXI
> The Thorvaldsen Museum. Catalogue of the Antique Engraved Gems and Cameos, ed. by Poul
Fossing, Copenhagen 1929 > p. 134, no. 840
> Bernard Ashmole: A Catalogue of the Ancient Marbles at Ince Blundell Hall, Oxford 1929 > pp. 106107, no. 290
> Handbuch der Archäologie, vol. 6.3., Georg Lippold: Die griechische Plastik, München 1950
(Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, 6) > p. 329
> Werner Fuchs: Der Dornauszieher, Bremen 1958 (Opus Nobile 8) > passim
> Achille Adriani: Divagazioni intorno ad una coppa paestistica del Museo die Alessandria, Rom 1959
> pp. 34-35, pl. VIII, 28
> Gertrud Platz-Horster: Statuen auf Gemmen, Bonn 1970 > pp. 72-75, pl. XV, figs. 3-4
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römischen Kaiserzeit, Mainz am Rhein 1974 > pp. 71-75, pl. 57.2, 4; 58.2-6, 8-9; 59.1-4
> Nikolaus Himmelmann: Drei hellenistische Bronzen in Bonn. Mit einem Anhang über den
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Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse 2) > pp. 26-34, pl. 12-15; 17-18
> Hubertus Manderscheid: Die Skulpturenausstattung der kaiserzeitlichen Thermenanlagen, Berlin
1981 > p. 126, no. 517. pl. 50
> Ronald Ralph Redfern Smith: Hellenistic Sculpture, London 1991 > pp. 136-137, figs. 171-172
> Rita Amedick: Dornauszieher. Bukolische und dionysische Gestalten zwischen Antike und Mittelalter,
in: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 32 (2005), pp. 17-51 > pp. 19, 28, 31-32, fig. 2, 15
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Funktion in Wohnhäusern und Heiligtümern im Licht antiker Parallelbefunde, Wiesbaden 2006
(Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Archäologische Forschungen 22) > pp. 497-498 no. 278, pl.
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