"Bronze Plaque: Satyr's Head - Italy, 16th Century"
This beautiful bronze plate represents a satyr head affecting the appearance of a leafy mask. His beard and ears end in vegetal patterns while his horns are surmounted by a foliated tiara. This composite motif synthesizes the fantasized vision of the humanists of the sixteenth century of Antiquity and alone illustrates the buccane theme of Arcadia, the mythical land where man lived in love, in harmony with nature.