RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco
(b. 1475, Firenze, d. 1554, Tours)

A Dancing Faun

c. 1515
Bronze, height 15 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The model of this statuette was made c. 1515, at the time when Cardinal Giulio de' Medici commissioned a bronze statuette of Mercury for a fountain in the Palazzo Medici, Florence. The statuette was cast possibly in mid-16th century.




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