Sujet

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right..., ca. 1490-1525. Creator: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia.

Légende

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne), ca. 1490-1525.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A94_413

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,8Mo (2,8Mo) / 31,7cm x 21,9cm / 3746 x 2591 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature leaves tree unusual Italy Italian female women woman people male man men religious plant plants country religion naked nude nudes leaf guy museum dead death deity God kneeling location century gesturing holding hands staff metamorphosis concept weird mythology vice Mercury virtue B&W nudity hand gesture posture goddess ignorance caduceus trench engraved engraving nakedness hand Gestures The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art allegory dead body Hermes black & white black and white B W allegorical 16th century allegorical figure dead bodies sixteenth century trees 15th century artistic school Daphne fifteenth century engraving Allegory Giovanni Antonio da Brescia Brescia Giovanni Antonio da walking staff Laurel tree Heritage Art laurel leaves