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The life-size [1] ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. A faun is the Roman equivalent of a Greek satyr. In Greek mythology, satyrs were human-like male woodland spirits with several animal features, often a goat-like tail, hooves, ears ...
Vincenzo Pacetti (1746–1820) was an Italian sculptor and restorer [1] from Castel Bolognese, particularly active in collecting and freely restoring and completing classical sculptures such as the Barberini Faun (1799 – now in the Glyptothek, Munich)— his most famous work— the Hope Dionysus (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art [2]) and the Athena of Velletri (1797 – now in the ...
The Barberini Faun (located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany) is a Hellenistic marble statue from about 200 BCE, found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). Gian Lorenzo Bernini restored and refinished the statue. [4]
The Barberini family was originally a family of minor nobility from the Tuscan town of Barberino Val d'Elsa, who settled in Florence during the early part of the 11th century. [1] Carlo Barberini (1488–1566) and his brother Antonio Barberini (1494–1559) were successful Florentine grain, wool and textile merchants.
Memorial to Carlo Barberini: Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble 26 [32] Statue of Carlo Barberini: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble Life-size 27 [33] Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (Bernini) [Wikidata] Uffizi, Florence 1630–1635 Painting Oil on canvas 62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in) NA [34] Saint Longinus
Barberini Faun Saint Sebastian in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura. Giuseppe Giorgetti (documented 1668–82) [1] was an Italian sculptor in Rome who worked first under his older brother Antonio Giorgetti and took over his workshop after Antonio died in late 1669.
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Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina. One of his most famous conceptions is the celebrated "Schönheitengalerie" (Gallery of Beauties) , in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.