Mercury

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (engravers (printmakers))

,

Hendrick Goltzius (after)

,

Cornelius Schonaeus (author)

Date

1596

Period

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

Amid several artists, the naked Mercury stands on a pedestal as ruler of the arts. In the foreground, two writers are having a discussion. In the sky we see the symbols of Mercury (centre) and the constellations twins (left) and virgin (right). The print is part of a series of seven representations called the planetary gods.

Public Domain

More about this work

Features

Description

Linked open data

Features

Artist(s) / maker(s)	Jan Saenredam VIAF RKD Wikidata , Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata , Cornelius Schonaeus
Type	burin engraving
Category	prints (visual works) AAT
Material	burijngravure op papier met watermerk (bovenaan in het midden) paper
Dimensions	237 x 175 mm
Location	Work currently not on display
Object number	2014-MV-4

Description

Subjects

allegory (artistic device) , mythologies (religious concept) , figures (representations)

Tags

male sex; man Iconclass , standing figure Iconclass , sitting figure Iconclass , the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass , gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass , (story of) Mercury (Hermes) Iconclass , portrait, self-portrait of artist Iconclass , portrait, self-portrait of painter Iconclass , portrait of a writer Iconclass , writer, poet, author Iconclass , symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ art; 'Arte' (Ripa) Iconclass , easel Iconclass , palette Iconclass , maulstick Iconclass , brushes ~ implements of painter Iconclass , Gemini (zodiacal sign of May) Iconclass , Virgo (zodiacal sign of August) Iconclass , art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass

Linked open data

Data PURL	https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MV-4
IIIF manifest	https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11707/manifest.json
LIDO XML	https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai/?metadataPrefix=oai_lido&verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-MV-4

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