The Barberini or drunken faun. Process print, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2045606i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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The Barberini or drunken faun. Process print, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of a sculpture known as the Barberini Faun, the Drunken Faun.

Publication/Creation

Como ; Zürich : Edit. Brunner & C. stab eliografico, [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 print : process print ; 13.8 x 9 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Roma. Fauno ebbro. Museo Vaticano

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "The mythological Roman figure of the faun, sometimes half man and half goat, has long been associated with gay sex, and has been a favourite subject with gay artists throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the photographer Frederick Holland-Day, to perhaps the most famous artistic representation of this figure by Nijinski, in his 1912 ballet 'L'après-midi d'un faune'. Perhaps the best known version from the classical age, the so-called 'Barberini Faun ', was discovered in the mausoleum of the 'gay' Emperor Hadrian".
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045606i

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