# Pan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TRIBOLO, Niccolò]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Bronze, height 26 cm ## Commentary Tribolo's last documented and entirely autograph work is this small, exuberantly twisting figure of Pan, shown playing on the pipes and seated on a vase. It has been described as one of the most beautiful Florentine bronzes of the Renaissance and should also be seen as an indispensable paradigm for the evolution of the free-standing statue in the art of Giambologna and his contemporaries. Tribolo after 1534 was working under the heavy shadow of Michelangelo, and there is something truly Michelangelesque in the structure and modelling of this bronze. ## Related artworks - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of the Labyrinth]() - [Joseph Interpreting Pharoah's Dreams]() - [Marriage of the Virgin]() - [Pavement decoration]() - [Right lateral portal \(detail\)]() - [The Amphitheatre]() - [The Amphitheatre]() - [The Goddess of Nature]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()