Young satyr seated. bronze with brown patina. Cm 28,00 x 51,00 x 28,00. Signature at the base. Base in marble.Neapolitan sculptor, Vincenzo Cinque studied at the local Accademia di Belle Arti. A contemporary of Vincenzo Gemito, he was part, together with artists such as Giovanni De Martino, of the group of Neapolitan sculptors who, at the turn of the two centuries, dedicated themselves to depicting images taken from the popular repertoire in a realist way: even the figures of ancient myth , as in the case of this young satyr bearing the attributes of Dionysus (a chalice and a bunch of grapes), become daily, so much to remember, if it were not for the goat limbs, plus a neapolitan child between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, dressed for fun as a character of the Bacchic procession, more than a true mythological figure.
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