Fauns and a door
Throughout the centuries, satyrs, fauns and the god Pan – half human, half Goat creatures of Greek and Roman mythology – have been variously understood. Considered lustful ad foreboding in the 1500s during the Italian Renaissance, they were later seen as more kind and sympathetic by baroque artists, such as Annibale Carracci and Antoine Coypel. This more favourable interpretation continued into the 19th century, giving rise to Franz von Stuck’s Battling Fauns and Emmanuel Fremiet’s sculpture Pan and Bear Cubs (1867), represented in Paul P.’s sketch Untitled (Faun), exhibited here.
Fauns and a door
Throughout the centuries, satyrs, fauns and the god Pan – half human, half Goat creatures of Greek and Roman mythology – have been variously understood. Considered lustful ad foreboding in the 1500s during the Italian Renaissance, they were later seen as more kind and sympathetic by baroque artists, such as Annibale Carracci and Antoine Coypel. This more favourable interpretation continued into the 19th century, giving rise to Franz von Stuck’s Battling Fauns and Emmanuel Fremiet’s sculpture Pan and Bear Cubs (1867), represented in Paul P.’s sketch Untitled (Faun), exhibited here.