"Boy with thorn" or "Spinario"

Given by Pope Sixtus IV in 1471

Located in Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy

The statue of the boy looking at his foot with a thorn in it is well known due to the position and face of the statue. The artist of this sculpture allows us to see the world in new and innovative ways due to the body structure of this sculpture. The sculptures arms are too skinny and his hair is plastered to his head, but the intense concentration on the face of the sculpture is what grabs people to study this sculpture more. The sculpture has a good sense of naturalism in the way that his leg is folded over the other and his back is hunched at just the right angle to make it seem realistic that he is looking at his foot. The inaccurate proportions of the sculpture in this case do not take away from the intense gaze we see.  The artist also makes a visual record of the people, places, and events of their time and place through this sculpture. This  Boy with Thorn is recorded in time as he is looking at the thorn in his foot, in the exact moment he is examining his foot to either determine what it is or how to get it out. The artist does a good job in portraying the exact time and person for this sculpture to be of meaning. The sculpture almost makes the boy seem like he is at otium due to the concentrated and intense look he has that means he is on his own time in examining his foot.