Kneeling Satyr (c. 1520): Art, History and Details

Kneeling Satyr (c. 1520) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1496–c. 1543).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Greek and Roman art and literature typically used satyrs as a form of grotesque comic relief, but Renaissance artists adopted them as jovial celebratory figures of nature and revelry.

Object facts

• Title: Kneeling Satyr
• Date: c. 1520
• Creator attribution: Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1496–c. 1543)
• Culture: Italy, Ravenna, 16th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 23.4 cm (9 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1985.86

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.
• Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138.
• Gregori, Mina. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 22 December 2003-31 March 2004. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan: Silvana, 2003.

View the collection record

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