Hellenistic Art: The Spinario, a boy drawing a thorn from his foot

Spinario, the thorn puller, 73 cm Roman bronze copy from a Greek original around 50 BC?, now Rome, Musei Capitoline. Known records since 12th century. A gift to to the city of Rome by Pope Sixtus IV in 1471.

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs , MC 1186

The Castellani Version of the Spinario (3D View – Quicktime) German Page

Spinario British Museum 1755

Bernardino Genga (1620-1690) : Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata non solo su gl'ossi, e muscoli del corpo humano, Rome: Domenico de Rossi, herede di Gio. Jacomo de Rossi, 1691.

Gaudenzio Marconi (1841-1885), Le tireur d'épine ("Lo spinario"), circa 1870.