# Faun [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BANDINELLI, Baccio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble, height 58 cm ## Commentary The talents of Baccio Bandinelli - an ambitious imitator and rival of Michelangelo at the court of Cosimo I de' Medici - revealed themselves particularly in drawing and small-scale plastic art. His monumental sculptural groups are full of contradictions and compositional discord, but in smaller works he demonstrates the clear molding of volumes, smooth treatment of the marble, and moderate use of detail that laid the foundation for academic Classicism. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Alessandro de'Medici]() - [Andrea Doria as Neptune]() - [Apollo]() - [Balustrade in the choir \(detail\)]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I]() - [Christ Tended by an Angel]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence \(detail\)]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()