Barberini Faun
Barberini Faun | |
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Artist | Giuseppe Giorgetti: Restoration |
Year | 2nd century BC |
Catalogue | 11.2 |
Type | Sculpture |
Medium | Marble |
Location | Glyptothek, Munich |
The life-size
History
The sculpture was either carved by an unknown
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smARThistory - Barberini Faun, c. 220 B.C.E.[6] |
It was traditionally asserted that Cardinal Maffeo
These restorations of the Barberini Faun may have enhanced the sexual aspect of the statue. Because of this, the statue has acquired a reputation as an example of erotic art. Nudity in Greek art was nothing new; however, the blatant sexuality of this work makes it most interesting to twentieth-century eyes. His wantonly spread legs focus attention on his genitals. Not all viewers have found the Faun so indecorous: the Barberini Faun was reproduced on a
The statue was housed in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, until it was sold in 1799 to the sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti; Pacetti offered it to various English and French clients, including Lucien Bonaparte. The Barberini brought suit to annul the sale and eventually sold the Faun, after much public competition and a ban on its exportation, strongly supported by the antiquarian Carlo Fea and by Antonio Canova— to Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria. Ludwig had planned a special room in the Glyptothek designed by the architect Leo von Klenze before the purchase was even finalized, and it was in place by 1827. The Glyptothek[8] opened in 1830 to house Ludwig's sculpture collection.
Copies
A marble copy was sculpted by
A copy by sculptor Eugène-Louis Lequesne was given to France in 1846. It is now located in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[9]
A gilded copy is included among many other replicas of classical sculptures that adorn the grand cascade that descends from the back of
See also
- Portland Vase and Apollo Barberini, also collected by the Barberini
- List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Notes
- ^ It is 215 cm long.
- ^ Martin Robertson, A History of Greek Art 1975 (Cambridge University Press) vol I, p. 534.
- ^ Nancy H. Ramage, "Restorer and Collector: Notes on Eighteenth-Century Recreations of Roman Statues", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volume 1, The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (2002:61-77)
- ^ Haskell and Penny 1981:202.
- ^ Winckelmann, Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi, edited by Carlo Fea, noted by Haskell and Penny.
- ^ "Barberini Faun, c. 220 B.C.E." smARThistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ^ The engraving is reproduced in Haskell and Penny 1981:fig. 16.
- ^ γλύφειν glyphein, "to carve".
- ^ "Ecole des Beaux Arts, the world's most influential art school". Minor Sights. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
References
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, 1991. Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press). Cat. no. 33, pp 202–05.
External links
Media related to Barberini Faun at Wikimedia Commons