Faun With Winekin Analysis

The Greeks have a long history and achievements as one of the great architects of civilization. Their superiority in calculations and their obsession to finished what they started. They could overcome unbelievable obstacles to build. The Greeks were seafarers and traders. They saw themselves as superior beings and viewed others as barbarians. They were descendants of the Mycenaean's. After High classical Greece, the Greeks praised their sculptures for being a true sight to see. They were obsessed with balance and order and felt the need to occupy space. That went on to the Hellenistic period when Alexander the Great died and the division of the empire.
The sculpture Faun with wineskin, found at the Penn's Museum is a sculpture carved in the …show more content…
The faun is associated as a sexually active creature, it almost like a sexual conquest but it was not necessarily a bad trait. It is also associated with wine and debauchery, hence the word wineskin. You can interpret it as being youthful and joyous, or as a time of breeding and bringing life. Which gives a hint it is associated with the deity Dionysus, who is the the god of fertility, grape harvest and festivities. The sculpture is made with white marble and naked; the Romans always showed the males naked, to show their knowledge of the human anatomy and physique. As for the women, they were viewed in “pudica pose” which meant covering of the pubic hair. It was not in its original form, most of the body parts were reconstructed. The right hand behind its back looks untouched, but other than that they reconstructed his neck which make it look elongated and out of place. The part part of his body that's worse his his abdomen. It looks patched up damaging some of the features. His lower body does not have that perfect harmony and does not correlate to the lower abdomen. Some parts of his torso and the wineskin is ancient, apart from that everything is