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Head of a Faun
Cast of a head inBargello Museum until 1944, once attributed as Michelangelo'sHead of a Faun
Artist	Michelangelo
Year	c. 1489
Type	Marble
Followed by	Madonna of the Stairs

Head of a Faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance masterMichelangelo, dating from c. 1489. It is his earliest known work of sculpture in marble, sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations. According toGiorgio Vasari's biography of Michelangelo, it was the creation of this work that secured the young Michelangelo the patronage ofLorenzo de' Medici.

• List of works by Michelangelo

• Artists Life — Michelangelo, page 14,15 — Enrica Crispino, 2001, Giunti Editore.
• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, page 23 — John Addington Symonds, BiblioBazaar.
• Michael Angelo: Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, Fordham University

• The Boy Michelangelo carving the Head of the FaunArchived 2011-07-21 at theWayback Machine - Sculpture ofCesare Zocchi (end of nineteenth century). It is inCasa Buonarroti
• Media related toHead of a Faun attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti at Wikimedia Commons

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• Sculptures by Michelangelo
• 1489 sculptures

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