Mercury

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Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne)

Mercury

Mercury

Statues of Venus and Mercury, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Landscape with Mercury Holding Argus's Head

Mercury

Mercury Presenting a Panpipe to Minerva

Mercury

Mercury descending from the sky a trumpet in his right hand, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

Venus and Mercury

Mercury carrying Psyche to Olympus, after Raphael's composition in the Villa Farnesina, Rome

Seated Figure of Mercury

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"

Mercury, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Plate 30: Venus and Cupid pleading their case before Jupiter and other Gods with Mercury transporting Psyche to the heavens at lower right, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

Mercurius, from Planets, plate 6

Plate 29: Cupid begging Jupiter to have mercy on Psyche with Mercury at left, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

Mercury

Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter who is accompanied by Mercury, from 'The Fable of Psyche'

Plate 18: Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter, who is accompanied by Mercury and an eagle, at left Mercury has descended to earth, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

Mercury at the right telling the story of Pan and Syrinx

Mercury standing holding a cadecus in his right hand, a lyre in his left

Calypso trying to detain Ulysses as a child prepares his armour at right and Mercury falls from the sky

Mercury presenting a panpipe to Minerva who stands at left, an oval composition

Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

The Judgment of Paris; Paris seated on a rock choosing between the goddesses Venus, Juno, and Minerva, the god Mercury with a caduceus in between them

Mercury Lulling Argus to Sleep, from "Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes"

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Classical Gods, Muses, and Allegorical Figures

"Mercury," Folio from the Bellini Album

Mercury and Argus, Io and Juno, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book I

Mercury Abducting Psyche (lateral view Psyche's side), from a set of three views of the sculpture

Mercury Abducting Psyche (view with Psyche from behind), from a set of three views of the sculpture

Mercury Abducting Psyche (lateral view Mercury's side), from a set of three views of the sculpture

Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 46 (verso)

Mercury Embracing Venus

Mercury Entering Herse's Room After Changing Agraulos to Stone, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

River Landscape with Mercury Abducting Psyche

Venus and Mercury

Venus and Mercury

Venus and Cupid Bind Mercury

Landscape with Mercury and Argus, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Mercury in a Decorative Frame with Grotesques

Standing Figure of Mercury

Mercury

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Virtue vanquishing Envy and Fortune, painted by Giulio Cesare Parigino; 2. Apollo and the Muses at the tomb of Agostino Carracci, painted by Luigi Valesio; 3. Mercury pointing to a constellation with the personification of Painting and that of the city of Bologna, Felsina, painted by Aurelio Benelli; 4. Personification of Painting being comforted by Poetry, and the personification of a river at right, painted by Lodovico Carracci; 5. Allegory of Knowledge and Vigilance chasing Envy out of Heaven, painted by Lorenzo Garbieri.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Plate 20: Mercury Turning Aglauros to Stone (Aglauros a Mercurio in lapidem transformatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Plate 18: Mercury Falling in love with Herse (Mercurius Herses amore accenditur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Plate 10: Mercury Killing Argos (Argus a Mercurio iugulatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Plate 105: Diana aiming her bow toward Chione, who is accompanied by two children, in another scene at left Mercury approaches the sleeping Chione, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Mercury Turning Aglauros to Stone (Aglauros a Mercurio in lapidem transformatur), plate 20 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)

Mercury

Composition of figures arranged in a landscape foreground before a statue of a female goddess, at left two nude figures support a nude woman riding a goat led by a putto, at center a draped woman holds one finger to her eye behind a satyr holding a bow, at right Mercury twists away from the satyr, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

Mercury and Argus

Mercury and Herse

Mercury and Argus