# Rondanini Faun [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DUQUESNOY, François]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Marble, height 175 cm \(without plinth\) ## Commentary The antique torso was formerly in the Palazzo Rondanini, Rome. It was restored \(completed\) by François Duquesnoy. Restorations of Classical sculpture in the 17th century were not free of Baroque amplification. Duquesnoy's completion of Classical statuary was hailed by his contemporaries as 'absolutely perfect', but his famous Rondanini Faun is rejected as a Classical composition by modern archeologists because its broad movement and open gesture were based upon the aesthetic preconceptions of Baroque art. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 11 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/debussy\_faune.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Cupid]() - [Bacchanalia of Putti]() - [Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy]() - [Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy]() - [Epitaph of Adriaen Vryburch]() - [Epitaph of Ferdinand van den Eynde]() - [Epitaph of Ferdinand van den Eynde]() - [Mercury]() - [Sleeping Silenus]() - [St Andrew]() - [St Susanna \(detail\)]() - [St Susanna]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()