# A Dancing Faun [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Bronze, height 15 cm ## Commentary The model of this statuette was made c. 1515, at the time when Cardinal Giulio de' Medici commissioned a bronze statuette of Mercury for a fountain in the Palazzo Medici, Florence. The statuette was cast possibly in mid-16th century. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python]() - [Battle]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Chariot of Victory]() - [Conversion of St Paul]() - [Courtyard decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()