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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]
The Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo, sold to Ludwig I of Bavaria and now in the Munich Glyptothek; The Barberini Venus; The Barberini Hera, also seen in this head; The Portland Vase (once known as the Barberini Vase), bought from the family by Sir William Hamilton and now in the British Museum; The Allegory of Divine Providence and ...
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 ...
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.
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.
In 1726 he also began a copy of the Barberini Faun, a Classical Hellenic sculpture from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. His copy arrived in France in 1732, and was greatly admired, and aided the transition of French sculpture toward neoclassicism. [1] In 1775 the Duke of Chartres bought it for his elaborate garden at Parc Monceau. It is now in ...
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 ...