satyr

“Venus” was originally created as a fountain, with water spouting out of the carved dolphins below the nymph and satyr.

Here, with his dopey expressions fused to a satyr’s body, he makes you nervous the way Malcolm McDowell did after he was reformed in “A Clockwork Orange.”

It has also, predictably, angered Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary militia group and the taunting, foul-mouthed satyr of Russia’s unhappy military adventure in Ukraine.

A reddish-brown jasper features a satyr seated on rocks beside a pillar.

Fosse, after all, was creating in his own image, whether rendering himself as a satyr, a sot or a snake.