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Head of a Faun
Cast of a head in Bargello Museum until 1944, once attributed as Michelangelo's Head of a Faun
ArtistMichelangelo
Yearc. 1489
TypeMarble
Followed byMadonna of the Stairs

Head of a Faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, dating from c. 1489. His first known work of sculpture in marble, it was sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations. According to Giorgio Vasari's biography of the artist, it was the creation of this work that secured the young Michelangelo the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.

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