Dancing Faun

Title: Dancing Faun
Description: Modern plaster replica of Roman bronze original from the House of the Faun at Pompeii, dating ca. 150 BCE, housed in the Museum of Archaeology in Naples. The original piece was displayed in the impluvium-fountain of the house. The torsional pose of the piece associates it with late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE works from the school of the Greek sculptor Lysippos, who introduced a new three-dimensionality and movement into his work in contrast to the static calm of sculpture of the earlier 5th century.
Bibliography: Haskell, F. and N. Penny. Taste and the Antique. Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven and London 1981), pp. 205-209, cat. 34.
Iconography: Faun; Satyr