Thursday, July 19, 2018

150 scenes from the domestic and social lives of the fauns and satyrs and their neighbours ... originally, satyrs followed dionysus, fauns followed pan, but their distinctions have become confused in the last two thousand years







































... drunken roman or greek satyrs and partying types ... eye-popping roman faun and satyr from a second century sarcophagus ... it's my impression that satyrs and fauns were role models for the partying lifestyle and disinhibition that the romans and the greeks aspired to in life, and that some hoped to experience more fully in their afterlives ...






























































































































































... the first wall paper ... after durer's print





















jacob jordaens ...













































https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satyr_and_the_Traveller





















... these pictures aren't in strict chronological order, i started assembling them as a kind of random scrapbook ... i've tried shifting them into some kind of order but the blogger template has a few glitches that introduce unexpected spacings into crowded pages ... and so for instance, these drawings by domenicho tiepolo should not really have appeared here before the etchings by his father giovanni battista tiepolo ...



































https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339427





















and neither should fragonard's bacchanals ... created late in his career ...





















https://blog.mam.org/2016/12/13/from-the-collection-bacchanals-by-jean-honore-fragonard/
























































































https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/807843/vari-capricci

























https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361896














































castiglione ...







































https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335663


























































































































































































































































...  i'd only belatedly thought of the dancer nijinsky



































































below, possibly the only todd yeager's fauns that are "fit to print" ...
todd yeager's self-admittedly homoerotic fauns clearly resonate with nijinsky's interpretation ...
















































































































who was AB ?































































robert mapplethorpe's brilliant self-portrait above ...





















































































titian below ...

















in a different place and time ...
































and then there was the grand anomaly, discovered belatedly by me, the prodigiously inspired and singularly uninhibited australian artist, norman lindsay ...
























































































































































































































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gericault below ...
























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rubens never tired of satyrs ...










































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































rubens ... maybe about 1610 ...