Jeronimo Suñol

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Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol (Barcelona 1840 - Madrid 16 October 1902) was a Catalan/Spanish sculptor whose early training was in the Valmitjana atelier, perfecting his art at Rome 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.

[edit] 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 in Paris, 1869 and kept a marble in his studio in Rome, where he repeated it for several collectors. It was cast in bronze for Barcelona, 1901.
Himeneo (1866) A nude of Hymenaeus, the god of weddings.
Petrarca
O'Donnell Monument in the Salesas Reales de Madrid. The funeral monument of General Leopoldo O'Donnell y Joris, Count of Lucena and Duque of Tetuan.
Alvarez de Castro Monument (1880). The funeral monument of General Mariano Alvarez de Castro.
Columbus monument, 1886. A replica of 1894 is in Central Park, New York.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid.
Marqués de Salamanca An informal portrait of uncompromising realsim, for a public monument. Suñol's last work, it is in Salamanca Square, Madrid.