# The Faun Family [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 44 x 34 cm ## Commentary The subject of the Faun Family relates to the romantic topos of the 'wild people who live in the forest', which can be found in the Metamorphoses by Ovid, and in De Rerum Natura by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. Both texts were widely known during the Middle Ages, but they enjoyed increased popularity following their reintroduction during the Renaissance. Cranach executed at least two other treatments of the subject in variants of similar overall mise-en-scene, but with differing arrangements and dispositions of the figures and landscape details. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()