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 atelier of Agapit and Venanci Vallmitjana, 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 realism, for a public monument. Suñol's last work, it is in Salamanca Square, Madrid.
