Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol was a Spanish sculptor whose early training was in the atelier of Agapit and Venanci Vallmitjana, perfecting his art at Rome

Rome

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 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

Neoclassicism

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 abstractions towards realistic depictions.

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
  Hymenaios
  In Greek mythology, Hymen was a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which was sung...
  
  , the god of weddings.
• Petrarca
• O'Donnell Monument in the Convent of the Salesas Reales
  Convent of the Salesas Reales
  The Convent of the Salesas Reales is an 18th-century architectural complex in central Madrid, Spain. Formerly a convent, specifically the convent of the Visitación de Nuestra Señora , it was constructed and occupied by the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, which had been founded by St. Francis...
  
  . 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 in the 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.

External links

• Jeronimo Suñol y Pujol