Dancing Faun
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Dancing Faun
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Published 2023-06-02T07:44:20+00:00
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Roman copy. This faun was dug up in Pompeii in 1830 and acquired its fame almost instantly. Its findspot was named after it — the House of the Faun.
Its completeness, small size, and the rarity of surviving bronzes made it a favourite subject for reproduction in the modest gardens and interiors of aspiring aesthetes. Another feature attractive to the refined tastes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was that the faun seemed to be joyous rather than drunk
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| Date published | 02/06/2023 |
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| Title | Dancing Faun |
| Dimension | Height, 0.76m |
| Accession | 358 |
| Period | Hellenistic |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Location of Original: Naples, National Museum 814 |
| Record | https://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/dancing-faun |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University |
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