Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Mercury
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Mercury
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Alternate Title:
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Flying Mercury
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Image View:
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Detail, base with the head of Zephyr, blowing air under the winged foot of Mercury
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Creator:
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Giambologna (Flemish sculptor, 1529-1608)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 449 B
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Location Note:
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Via del Proconsolo, 4
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GPS:
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+43.770423+11.257947
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Date:
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1580 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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180 cm (height)
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Description:
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Giambologna's small bronze statuettes ('bronzetti') were enormously popular (they continued to be reproduced almost continuously until the 20th century) and being portable helped to give his style European currency. A series of bronze statues of Mercury (begun in ca. 1565) culminated in the renowned “flying” Mercury (1580, Bargello, Florence), outstanding for the airy elegance of its pose: the nude figure stands poised on the toes of the left foot on the breath of Zephyr, with the right arm raised high in a pointing gesture. Originally this decorated a fountain in the garden of the Villa Medici, Rome, owned by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GB-MB-FM-A13
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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