ID: 700007464 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007464	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Dancing Faun (sculpture (visual works); Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian, 1652 - 1725) (Italian Ar...; about 1700; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2000.8)

Note: This bronze statuette represents a dancing faun, a popular subject in antiquity and in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The Romans identified the faun with Pan, the Greek god of woods, fields, flocks, and herds. Able to charm nymphs with his music, he personifies Lust in Renaissance allegories. As in the present work, the faun is usually depicted as having a goat-like face with pointed ears, a tail, and horns, characteristics that derived from his association with Bacchus, the Greek god of wine and revelry. In antiquity, the faun was also often portrayed as a handsome youth snapping his fingers or clapping cymbals to the music of a syrinx (reed pipes arranged in a row of ascending length) or playing a scabellum (foot organ) as in this bronze.

Titles:

Dancing Faun (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Dancing Faun (after the antique) (C,U,English,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

statuette (figurine) [300047455]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by subject type>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1700

Creator Display:

Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian, 1652 - 1725) (Italian Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Foggini, Giovanni Battista (Italian sculptor and architect, 1652-1725) [500020988]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2000.8

Other: Creation: Firenze [7000457] Firenze province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Bronze

	bronze (metal) [300010957]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <copper and copper alloy>, copper alloy)

Dimensions: Object: H: 54 cm (H: 21 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	faun [300386072]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), legendary beings) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Dancing Faun	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Dancing Faun (after the antique)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)