Lost wax bronze replica.
This small bronze statue represents the God Pan dancing and playing the fifes. Pan is the Greek deity who represents nature, cattle, folk music. He was the shepherd god, the god of the countryside, forests and pastures. This subject so dear to classical Greek sculpture was in fact found during the Pompeian excavations that began in 1500. The Roman Faun is the equivalent of the Greek God Pan, also represented with goat legs and made of hair, horns on the head, similar to a satyr. The original bronze was used as a fountain decoration inside a Villa Pompeaina. Many villas in Pompeii were in fact adorned with bronze animal statues, and often the most representative statue gave the name to the Villa, as in the case of the Villa of the Dancing Faun. The original masterpiece is now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
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