Cleveland Museum of Art

Kneeling Satyr

Severo da Ravenna

Date

c. 1520

Medium

bronze

Culture

Italy, Ravenna, 16th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Greek and Roman art and literature typically used satyrs as a form of grotesque comic relief, but Renaissance artists adopted them as jovial celebratory figures of nature and revelry.

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