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The Barberini Faun (Barberinischer Faun), also Sleeping Satyr or Drunken Satyr, is the best-known sculpture in the Glyptothek in Munich and probably the most famous Greek statue in Germany. This marble sculpture of a drunken Satyr dates from around 220 BC and is a Greek original rather than a later Roman copy.

From a distance, and even fairly close up, this sculpture looks like a young man lying back with his legs wide open and genitals exposed. Only a small horsetail reveals it is a satyr and not a human making it quite OK in antiquity art to have your sexual organs on display.

Satyrs (or fauns in Roman versions) were human-like spirits with animal features such as a tails, hooves, hairy legs, pointy ears, horns, large genitalia, and often oddly shaped penises. In this version, the sculptor used mostly human features, even hiding the ears behind hair and the arm of the sleeping or drunken satyr. They were associated with Dionysus and thus seen as lusty party animals not bound by the sexual norms and composure of polite society.

In modern history, the sculpture was rediscovered in the 1620s in Rome and acquired by Cardinal Francesco Barberini. It was sold to Ludwig despite public opposition in Italy, including protests by Antonio Canova, and became one of the main attractions in the Glyptothek that opened in 1830.

(More people have probably seen the good marble copy of the Barberini Faun (now in the Louvre), which was made in 1726 by Edmé Bouchardon.

Visit the Glyptothek in Munich, the only museum in the world dedicated solely to sculptures from antiquity, to see a high-quality collection of Greek and Roman sculptures.

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Taken in: Germany / Bavaria / Munich, Urban District / Königsplatz (show map)

Taken on: March 5, 2023

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