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Title
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De Mercure
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Description
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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."
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Image Creator
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Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
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Identifier
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mta:28960
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Source Name
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Esope en Belle Humeur
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Image
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mta_28960_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Art
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Mythology