Mercury and Herse, after Ovid's Metamorphoses

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Willem Hessels van Elst (author)
,
Hendrick Goltzius

Date

1590

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Willem Hessels van Elst , Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper AAT
Dimensions 166 x 250 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-MK-7
Description
Subjects mythologies (religious concept) AAT , figures (representations) AAT , cityscapes (representations) AAT
Tags Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass, gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass, (story of) Mercury (Hermes) Iconclass, Mercury falls in love with Herse, when seeing her and her companions carry baskets full of flowers to the temple Iconclass, love-affairs of Mercury Iconclass, Mercury and Herse, daughter of Cecrops Iconclass, flowers Iconclass, container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass, (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, floating in the air Iconclass, caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) Iconclass, temple, shrine ~ Roman religion Iconclass, (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena) Iconclass, the Bible as a book Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MK-7
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11688/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-MK-7
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