Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol (13 December 1839–16 October 1902
) was a Spanish sculptor born in
Barcelona
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. His early training was in the
atelier
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of
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and , perfecting his art at
Rome
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where he maintained a studio for many years. Never prolific, he was among the front rank of Spanish sculptors of his generation, moving sculpture by his example away from
neoclassical abstractions towards realistic depictions. He died in
Madrid
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.
Major works
*''Dante'' (1864). The major work that established his reputation shows
the poet seated, lost in thought. The full-sized plaster model received a second-class medal at the exposition of 1864 in Madrid. Suñol showed it in Paris in 1869 and kept a marble in his studio in Rome, where he repeated it for several collectors. It was cast in bronze for Barcelona in 1901.
*''Himeneo'' (1866). A nude of
Hymenaeus, the god of weddings.
*''
Petrarca'' (1867)
*''O'Donnell Monument'' (1870). The funeral monument of General
Leopoldo O'Donnell y Joris, Count of Lucena and Duque of Tetuan in the
Convent of the Salesas Reales
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.
*''Alvarez de Castro Monument'' (1880). The funeral monument of General
Mariano Álvarez de Castro
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.
* Statue of the ''
Columbus monument'' (1886). A
1892 replica is in
Central Park
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, New York.
*''Saint Peter'' and ''Saint Paul'' in the
Basilica of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid.
*''
Marqués de Salamanca'' (1902). An informal portrait of uncompromising realism, for a public monument. Suñol's last work, it is in the Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca, Madrid.
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Spanish sculptors
Spanish male sculptors
1839 births
1902 deaths
Artists from Barcelona
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