Head of a Faun
Head of a Faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, dating from c. 1489. It is his earliest known work of sculpture in marble, sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations. According to Giorgio Vasari's biography of Michelangelo, it was the creation of this work that secured the young Michelangelo the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.