Lost wax bronze casting.
This statuette is a faithful replica of the masterpiece by Donatello nowadays located inside the Bargello National Museum in Florence.
The author is Donatello and the character's attribution is quite controversial.
It represents evidently a young boy in an approach to dance with the arms lifted up, and a joyful and enthusiastic attitude towards life.
Some say it could be a cupid, someothers say it is a putto or God Eros, the god of love. But it is mostly called as Attis, a remote and old divinity, probably a faithful eunuch servant guiding the chariot of a god or goddess. The items he was holding in the hands, probably some reins, went lost centuries ago.
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