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| Antico Spinario ca. 1496-1501 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Spinario ca. 1496-1501 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Spinario ca. 1496-1501 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Antico is the flattering nickname ascribed to Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi, who lived from about 1455 to 1528. He was most prolific as a bronze caster working for the Gonzaga court in Mantua. Antico's personal mission was to reinvigorate classical forms. Many of his works, like the Spinario above, were small-scale adaptations of famous classical statues in Italian collections. The little bronzes he made at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th – with their meticulous detail and finish, and their status as signifiers of cultural sophistication – were useful to Antico's patrons both as princely possessions and as princely gifts.
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| Antico Meleager ca. 1484-90 bronze statuette Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Antico Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar ca. 1480 bronze roundel Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Antico Paris ca. 1500-1505 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Paris ca. 1500-1505 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1520 bronze bust Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Antico Satyr ca. 1500-1525 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Satyr ca. 1500-1525 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Emperor Antoninus Pius 1519-22 bronze bust Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Antico Emperor Antoninus Pius 1519-22 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art |