''La Spigolatrice'' ("The

Gleaner A gleaner(Noun) is a person who engages in gleaning, utilizing crops and resources left behind in a harvest. Newspapers *''The Gleaner'', a newspaper of record in Kingston, Jamaica, published by: **The Gleaner Company, a newspaper publishing enter ...

") is a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

statue by Emanuele Stifano, installed in 2021 in

Sapri Sapri is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is one of the southernmost towns of the region of Cilento and its population is 6,783. History The town of Sapri has ancient origins an ...

, Italy. It depicts a woman from

Luigi Mercantini Luigi Mercantini (20 September 1821 – 17 November 1872) was an Italian poet and writer, who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem ''"La spigolatrice di Sapri"'', depicting ...

's poem ''The Gleaner of Sapri'', and has attracted some criticism because of the "very well-defined" treatment of the buttocks (under a dress). The artist is unrepentant.

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