Plate 14: Mercury standing in a niche playing his pipes, with the severed head of an old man and a sword at his feet, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Plate 14: Mercury standing in a niche playing his pipes, with the severed head of an old man and a sword at his feet, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses" by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 3/16 × 4 3/16 in. (20.8 × 10.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Accession Number

49.97.234

Tags

Musical InstrumentsMercury

About the Artist

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino · 15001565

Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)

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