The Marble Faun Statue

Samuel wagstaff jr american 1921 1987 sold to the j.

The marble faun statue.

This information is published from the museum s collection database. Paul getty museum 1984. The romance mixes elements of a fable pastoral gothic novel and travel guide. A faun is the roman equivalent of a greek satyr.

The rondanini faun was built on an ancient torso completed by duquesnoy between 1625 and 1630. A marble statue of a young man leaning against a tree stump. The marble faun novel by nathaniel hawthorne published in 1860. It is one of the works hawthorne called romances unrealistic stories in exotic settings.

The novel s central metaphor is a statue of a faun by praxiteles that hawthorne had seen in rome. In greek mythology satyrs were human like male woodland spirits with several animal features often a goat like tail hooves ears or horns. The fact that all characters are somewhat connected to the art world can be seen as a plot device to allow the metaphors of art and human psyche to flow more naturally. The life size marble statue known as the barberini faun fauno barberini or drunken satyr is located in the glyptothek in munich germany.

Updates and additions stemming from research and imaging activities are ongoing with new content added each week. The faun of praxiteles is in the collection of the capitoline museum in rome. In the faun s fusing of animal and human. The rondanini fawn is a marble sculpture by flemish artist françois duquesnoy it is part of the collection at the british museum in london.

The marble statue of a faun becomes a central element and metaphor for the character of donatello.