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Faun with Cymbals

Pietro da Barga Italian

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This figure is adapted from an ancient marble in the Vatican, in which the faun carries the infant Bacchus. Many small copies after the antique in this scale were ordered from Pietro da Barga by the Medici grand dukes.

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