Head of a Faun
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Head of a faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo
, dating from c. 1489. His first known work, it was sculpted when he was 13 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
, dating from c. 1489. His first known work, it was sculpted when he was 13 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations.
Sources
- Artists Life — Michaelengelo, page 14,15 — Enrica Crispino, 2001, Giunti Editore.
- The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, page 23 — John Addington Symonds, BiblioBazaar.
External links
- The Boy Michelangelo carving the head of the Faun - Sculputure of Cesare Zocchi (end of nineteenth century). It is in Casa BuonarrotiCasa BuonarrotiCasa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence. The building was a property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo, which he left to his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti. The house was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger...