Spinario
Boy with Thorn also called Fedele Fedelino or Spinario is a Greco Roman Hellenistic Bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori The Capitoline Museums Italian Musei Capitolini are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome Italy The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years The history of the museums can be traced to 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on Capitoline Hill Since then the museums collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues inscriptions and other artifacts a collection of medieval and Renaissance art and collections of jewels coins and other items The museums are owned and operated by the municipality of Rome The statue of a mounted rider in the centre of the piazza is of Emperor Marcus Aurelius It is a copy the original being housed on site in the Capitoline museum Many Roman statues were destroyed on the orders of Christian Church authorities in the middle ages this statue was preserved in the erroneous belief that it depicted the Emperor Constantine who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman empire source Wikipedia
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