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Smiling Faun
Visual Analysis Assignment
Smiling Faun
On October 31st I went to the Smith College Museum of Art. There I saw various displays. I went through corridors of different centuries and periods. One particular piece of sculpture caught my eye with a sly grin. I came to find that the piece was marked as the “Smiling Faun.” It was a Graeco-Roman sculpture, with a marble medium, dating back to the 1st century C.E. The faun as I remembered from my Greek classes was a woodland deity, which supposedly brought good fortune to the farmer and the shepard. I believe the sculptor gave a brilliant effort bringing out the essence of the piece through its youth, mischievous grin, and fine detail in a piece that seems to be part of a whole. The stunning piece seemed to have a lot more going on than at first look. With a sense of curiousness, I began to examine. This was when I decided that I would do my analysis on the “Smiling Faun.”
Upon first inspection of the sculpture, it appeared to be a high-relief sculpture of a faun. This faun though, upon closer inspection was not high-relief. While I walked around to its backside I notice the fine detail that went into this faun’s entire body. Slender shoulders and a narrowing ba
Approximate Word count = 1306
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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