Légende

The planet Mercury and artists, scholars and technicians, c1535. Mercury rides through the clouds in a carriage drawn by birds. Below are musicians, astronomers, artists and scholars who come under his sphere of planetary influence. A favourite motif among medieval and Renaissance illustrators were the areas of life thought to be under the special control of each planet.

Date

1520

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_058

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49.9Mo (6.6Mo) / 28.9cm x 43.3cm / 3409 x 5118 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather transport transportation exterior outdoors cloud clouds animal building wood people male library job man men music religious fruit German arts globe bird birds religion writing planet science musician sculpture art book guy occupation belief research reading solar system astronomy tools tool pen knowledge organ astrology machine carriage machinery wooden artist painter deity God grapes scientist scientists grape Renaissance century musical instrument musical instruments studying profession calculation calculations calculating print literature concept sculptor script mythology chisel Mercury griffon lathe B&W British Library manuscript easel road Transport Bunch Of Grapes quill pen mythical creature black & white black and white B W griffin griffins gryphon gryphons 16th century astronomer organist sixteenth century woodcut bellows chiselling mythical beast outside wood engraving sky Sebald Beham Hans Sebold Beham Hans Sebald Beham courtyard Beham Sebald mythical creatures Heritage Art mythical beasts mythological creature bunches of grapes Beham Hans Sebold Beham Hans Sebald