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Dionysos and Faun

Also known as Bacchus and Pan. This double statuette is in the flamboyant Roman ‘baroque’ style. Bacchus the wine god is shown as a long haired beardless naked youth, crowned as usual with grapes and leaves. The faun, patron of forests, shepherds and flocks, holds a cornucopia and musical pipes. They are mounted on a base decorated with a relief of a sleeping woman, and with a small lion sitting beside them.

Although Bacchus and Pan or a faun are often paired in art, the origins and history of this sculpture are unknown

Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Unknown

Size: 
0.87m
References: 

Reinach: Repertoire de la Statuaire Grècque et Romaine I, 388
Clarac: Musée de Sculpture (1841-53), atlas 4, pl. 693

Date: 
Roman
Provenance: 

Unknown

Number: 
493

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