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 ...

etc etc ...

gericault below ...

etc, etc ...

etc, etc ...

rubens never tired of satyrs ...

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


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


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


https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/12/19/the-difference-between-fauns-and-satyrs/

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337067?pkgids=612&ft=*&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search?fbclid=IwAR3IktnvAw_bDcN0H_edgPdNB0RVaNy1LK804TrjTo5XLezF-OfJjDv-aoY#/14/collection/405553/diana-and-her-nymphs-spied-upon-by-satyrs

rubens ... maybe about 1610 ...

hans hoffmann ( with two "n"s )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hoffmann_(painter)

jacob jordaens ... the satyr and the peasant ...

he worked on the theme at least five times ... was the fable particularly important to him, or to his clients, in some way that we no longer understand ?

erasmus published this fable and many others in his adagia of 1500 ...

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

https://archive.org/stream/proverbschieflyt00blaniala#page/n199/mode/2up/search/satyr

... the adagia must have been a go-to-source for lots of artists in the subsequent century  ... think of brueghel's netherlandish proverbs ...

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

or maybe hans hoffman ...

https://twitter.com/veracausa9/status/951571340993224706

... all long before jordaens' versions from about 1620

... wikipedia carries an excellent article on the fable, all of its tellings and interpretations ...

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

... and here's an excellent compilation of images of jordaens' pictures

http://markfrm.blogspot.com/2014/12/jacob-jordaens-1593-1678-flemish.html