Bacanal: fauno importunado por crianças

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Italian
 and Pietro Bernini Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 534

Dotado de um talento extraordinário, Gian Lorenzo Bernini foi aprendiz de seu pai, Pietro, considerado um artista versátil. Neste período, o pai e o filho colaboraram em numerosas esculturas de mármore, que mostram claramente as aspirações e a maestria do filho. O grupo escultórico aqui representado é a escultura mais ambiciosa deste período e demonstra o interesse do jovem artista em criar grupos de figuras entrelaçadas em superfícies diferentes: observe a tensão dos músculos do fauno, a boca sem dentes, querubins rechonchudos, a casca da árvore e do grupo de frutas suculentas. Inspirado por antigos sarcófagos, esta cena báquica representa a fusão do classicismo e do naturalismo típico da arte romana, na virada do Barroco.

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome

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Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome), Marble, Italian, Rome

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