Lost wax bronze replica.
Author: unkwon
Period: 100 B.C.
The original masterpiece, in marble, is now located inside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
The satyrs were followers of God Bacchus, personifying the most wild nature, inferior divinities, usually depicted with little horns on their head, pointy ears, cloven feet and very hairy. The romans would often depict them in the act of playing instruments, flirting with nymphs, harvesting grapes.
The faun is in this case depicted while playing an instrument, the "Kroupezion", kind of an accordion to be played with the feet. It is believed that the cymbals he’s holding in his hands have been added afterwards and were not part of the Greek original.
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