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    285 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Results for "Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is h"12 records

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Cupid Presenting Psyche to the Gods by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cupid Presenting Psyche to the Gods

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) (d. 1563)

ca. 1540–45 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on brown-washed paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and to her right, the three Graces by Master of the Die, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and to her right, the three Graces

Master of the Die (d. 1560)

1530–60 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

1604 · Engraving; New Holl.'s third state of three

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Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

1604 · Engraving; New Holl.'s third state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus and Mercury by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus and Mercury

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus and Mercury by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus and Mercury

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

ca. 1600 · Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of four

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mercury and Cupid by Francesco Fanelli, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mercury and Cupid

Francesco Fanelli (d. 1665)

late 1630s · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame by Francisco Rizi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame

Francisco Rizi (d. 1685)

1650 · Pen and brown ink with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash. Composition outlined in pen and brown ink. Contours incised and verso blackened with carbon dust for transfer

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mercury and Battus by Francisque Millet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mercury and Battus

Francisque Millet (d. 1679)

1679 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (d. 1770)

1760s · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mercury by Giambologna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mercury

Giambologna (d. 1608)

17th–18th century? · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Iris, Messenger of the Gods

Auguste Rodin (d. 1917)

modeled ca. 1890, cast 1965 · Bronze, black marble base

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