IL SATIRO IN RIPOSO -- il nudo maschile nella statuaria italiana a tutto tondo all'aperto -- CAMPIDOGLIO -- the statue was found on the PALATINO and was formerly in Villa d'Este.

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Satyr leaning on a tree-trunk. He wears an animal skin draped from right shoulder to left hip.

• Height: 1.83m.
• marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is a version of a Greek original, made in about 340 BC, probably by Praxiteles.
  • was found in Rome, possibly in Hadrian's Villa or on the Palatine.
  • was formerly in Villa d'Este, inv. 1572, no. 62.
  • is now in Rome, Museo Capitolino, inv. 739.