Dancing satyr from the group «Invitation to the dance»

What looks like one ancient statue is really three things at once. The core is a Roman marble of the first century, copying a Greek bronze made around 200 years before Christ. Then comes the hand of a later restorer, because the head, both arms, parts of the legs and the base were all added to turn a broken fragment back into a whole dancer. The figure was thought to belong to a lost group called the Invitation to the Dance, where he plays a foot-clapper and turns toward a seated nymph who is no longer here. He has stood in the Tribuna, the octagonal treasure room of the Uffizi, since 1588, and generations of sculptors copied his raised arm and swaying step. The dance you read in his body was completed nearly 2,000 years after it began.