De Mercure · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Mercure
Subject: Art; Mythology
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium
Description: Mercury the celestial messenger, esteemed himself more than the rest of the gods, and treated them all as wretches of this world. The God of war, although his Father, was a deceiver and a brute. Saturn with his scythe was a rambler; Atlas an old book; Momus a fool; Minerva with her arts a precious one, and so on and so forth, he was the perfect god. One day he left the heavens and took on a human form and came to the city of Thebes, where he went for a walk and entered the workshop of a sculptor, where he said to him: "My friend, I would like to buy the statues of the gods."
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28960
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28960_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Art; Mythology