Baroque · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 206399
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini, ca. 1616–17
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Annenberg Fund and others, 1976. The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain
- Artist
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini
- Date
- ca. 1616–17
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 132.4 × 73.7 × 47.9 cm
- Era
- Baroque
Why it matters
Carved when Bernini was still a teenager, the group turns hard marble into a theatre of twisting bodies, laughter, pressure, and touch—qualities that would define his mature Baroque sculpture.