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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Examples of Roman sculpture are abundantly preserved, in total contrast to Roman painting, which was very widely practiced but has almost all been lost. Latin and some Greek authors , particularly Pliny the Elder in Book 34 of his Natural History , describe statues, and a few of these descriptions match extant works.
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.
The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1609–1615 Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1 [4] Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni: Santa Prassede, Rome 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size 2 [4] A Faun Teased by Children: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm ...
The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate. The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate, also known as The Destroying Angel and Daemons Inflicting Divine Vengeance on the Wicked and Intemperate [1] and as The Destruction of the Temple of Vice, [2] is an 1832 English oil painting on canvas ...
Genre subjects of common people, women, children, animals and domestic scenes became acceptable subjects for sculpture, which was commissioned by wealthy families for the adornment of their homes and gardens; the Boy with Thorn is an example. The Barberini Faun, 2nd-century BC Hellenistic or 2nd-century AD Roman copy of an earlier bronze