Mercury spies Herse and her two sisters from the sky. He falls in love with Herse. The temple of Minerva can be seen on the right.
| Artist |
Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Willem Hessels van Elst
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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| Title | Mercury and Herse, after Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| Date | 1590 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Location | Haarlem TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: 17. |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, left middle: Palladis Actee sacrata in templa ferebat/ Munera virginei turba pudica chori. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre right: Vidit Atlantiades, solamq. exarqit in Hersen, / Hec visa est reliquis dignior una Deo. | |
| inscription on the reverse: [...] | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-MK-7 |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MK-7 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11688/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300417629
mythologies (religious concept)
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
12F61
temple, shrine ~ Roman religion
Iconclass
25G41 flowers Iconclass 31A2763 floating in the air Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 83(OVID, Metamorphoses) (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass 9 Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass 92 gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass 92B5 (story of) Mercury (Hermes) Iconclass 92B52 love-affairs of Mercury Iconclass 92B522 Mercury and Herse, daughter of Cecrops Iconclass 92B5221 Mercury falls in love with Herse, when seeing her and her companions carry baskets full of flowers to the temple Iconclass 92B58(CADUCEUS) caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) Iconclass 92C2 (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
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