Michelangelo Showing Lorenzo il Magnifico the Head of a Faun, surrounded by the other sculpture students by Ottavio Vannini. The most famous story of Michelangelo’s time in the Garden surrounds Michelangelo’s Faun statue. When Lorenzo saw this statue, he jokingly told Michelangelo that he looked too perfect to be an old faun. Michelangelo than took his drill and knocked out one of the teeth in the mouth of the Faun.

The satyr, in ancient Greek: σάτυρος, sátyros, is a mythical male figure inhabiting woods and mountains. Minor deity, personification of fertility and life force of nature, connected with Dionysian worship. In ancient Roman religion it is known as "faun".