Crouching Boy
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
1915
- Medium
- Plaster cast
- Classification
- Statue
- Dimensions
- height 61 cm, width 43.5 cm
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
The original was acquired by Catherina the Great and is the only work by this Renaissance master in Russian possession. The copy was acquired from the Academy of Art in Skt. Petersburg (Petrograd) in 1915, two years before the Revolution. The work expresses what is named “antique reception” in art history, the inspiration being taken from a work from antiquity named “Spinario”, depicting a boy trying to pick a thorn out of his foot. Michelangelo does not copy it, but develops it to an original artwork, where the influence from the original as well as the differences can be traced, if you know the “Spinario”.
