Iconography

ANTIQUITIES

Printed books / Rossi, Raccolta di Statue (1704)

GODS AND MYTHS

Mercury / Single figure / Standing / Post-classical

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 43-149: Mercury is sent to Ortygia and commands Calypso to release Ulysses

Further details

reproducing an imitation from the Antique in Palazzo Farnese in 1704 (on the Milanese art market in 1905). Described as 'Statua di bronzo di Mercurio col pileolo alato, e con foglio nella sinistra, per la rappresentanza che ha d'esser messagiero degli Dei. Homer: Odiis. Lib 5; Stat: Thebaid'

Artist or creator

Randon, Claude (born 1644 or 1674, died after 1704)

Date

1704

Location

Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Bibl. Hertziana (Photographer (analogue))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Rossi, Domenico de and Maffei, Paolo Alessandro. Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne. Rome. 1704. Plate: 57.
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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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