satyr

Examples of satyr in the following topics:

• Sculpture in the Hellenistic Period

  • The Barberini Faun, also known as the Sleeping Satyr (c. 220 BCE), depicts an effeminate figure, most likely a satyr, drunk and passed out on a rock.

• French Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • The tympanum was to be flanked on either side by bronze sculptures of nude satyrs, posed as mirror images of one another, also cast by Cellini.