Wrapped Statues, Sleeping Faun, Project for the Glyptothek, Munich, 2000

This edition is based on Christo's design for a project in which he envisioned wrapping the Barberini Faun, a prominent sculpture in the collection of Munich's Glyptothek. The faun is a marble sculpture of a drowsy satyr or faunus in the form of a young, muscular man, probably created around 220 BC and found in the 17th century in the moat of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. As a mythical being, the figure can be recognized by a horse's tail protruding from the lower part of his back.