Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
M. Liebmann and others, Western European Sculpture from Soviet Museums - 15th and 16th Centuries, Leningrad, 1988, pp. 58-59.
Traditionally, the model for the faun was thought to be the work of Michelangelo. However, the prototype survives in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and is currently attributed to Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) on grounds of similarities with the central figure in Bandinelli's The Drunkenness of Noah in the National Museum, Florence (Liebmann, loc. cit.). The correspondence with the prototype of the head is exact, but the shape of the shoulders and the disposition of the goatskin have been modified.
M. Liebmann and others, Western European Sculpture from Soviet Museums - 15th and 16th Centuries, Leningrad, 1988, pp. 58-59.
Traditionally, the model for the faun was thought to be the work of Michelangelo. However, the prototype survives in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and is currently attributed to Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) on grounds of similarities with the central figure in Bandinelli's The Drunkenness of Noah in the National Museum, Florence (Liebmann, loc. cit.). The correspondence with the prototype of the head is exact, but the shape of the shoulders and the disposition of the goatskin have been modified.