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FRANCESCO DA SANGALLO (1494–1576) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, the son of the architect and sculptor Giuliano da Sangallo.
RECLINING PAN
Francesco da Sangallo, Italian, 1494–1576
1560-70, Marble, Rome, Italy
Saint Louis Art Museum
Amid grape clusters and vines, Pan reclines on a rocky base. His left hand clutches the goatskin once filled with libations. Such details, together with the small salamander carved amid the rocks, evoke a rustic scene befitting Pan, the half-goat, half-human god of the woods, fields, and flocks. Known for lustful pursuits, the grimacing Pan holds a reed pipe, or syrinx, an allusion to the maiden Syrinx, who turned into a patch of reeds to escape Pan's advances.
Looking at the sculpture from the back, remnants of an ancient carving are still visible. Portions of the folds and fringed edge of a draped garment from a 2nd- or 3rd-century Roman relief can be detected behind the head and upper torso.
Sangallo was born in Florence. His father took him at the age of ten to Rome where, in 1506, he was present at the identification of the Laocoön group, an event he described in a letter written in 1567, towards the end of his life. Francesco da Sangallo was a pupil of Andrea Sansovino. The earliest dated sculpture attributed to him is the "Virgin and Child with St. Anne" in Orsanmichele, Florence.
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