Jeronimo Suñol
Illustration — Jeronimo Suñol, La Ilustración Española y Americana, 22 June 1882 Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol (13 December 1839–16 October 1902) was a Spanish sculptor born in Barcelona. His 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.
Also recorded as Jeroni Maria Suñol i Pujol · Jerónimo Sunyol · Jerónimo Suñol · Jeroni Miquel Suñol i Pujol
Jeronimo Suñol
Félix Badillo y Rodrigo / Arturo Carretero · La Ilustración española y americana Año XXVI. Núm. 23. Madrid, 22 de junio de 1882: 385. ISSN 1889-8394. · Public domain
- Born
- 1839 · Barcelona.
- Died
- 1902 · Madrid.
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- Spain
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- sculptor
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- Spanish · Catalan
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Illustration — Jeronimo Suñol, La Ilustración Española y Americana, 22 June 1882 Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol (13 December 1839–16 October 1902) was a Spanish sculptor born in Barcelona. His 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.
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• Illustration — Portrait of Jeroni Suñol (c. 1864) by Marià Fortuny • Illustration — Marqués de Salamanca, Madrid, 1902 • 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. • Alvarez de Castro Monument (1880). The funeral monument of General Mariano Álvarez de Castro. • Statue of the Columbus monument (1886). A 1892 replica is in Central Park, 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.
Iglesia de San Félix (Gerona), Capilla de San Narciso. Sepultura de Mariano Álvarez de Castro, gobernador de Gerona, y defensor de la ciudad durante la Guerra de la Independencia Española. Jerónimo Suñol esculpió la sepultura en mármol (1892)
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Monumento proyectado por Sureda Deulovol con la intervención de Jerónimo Suñol y Juan Figueras y Vila (1871-1880)
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1839
Jeronimo Suñol was born on 13 December 1839.
1902
Jeronimo Suñol died on 16 October 1902.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jeroni Maria Suñol i Pujol, Jerónimo Sunyol, Jerónimo Suñol, Jeroni Miquel Suñol i Pujol and Jeroni Suñol Pujol. His recorded languages were Spanish and Catalan. Formation and teaching. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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