Mercury
17th–18th century?
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed, width and depth subjective depending on rotation): 13 1/4 × 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 in. (33.7 × 11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973
Accession Number
1974.28.145
Tags
About the Artist
Giambologna · 1529–1608
Born and trained in Flanders (Douai, his birthplace, is now in France but was once in Flanders), Giambologna traveled to Italy in 1550 to study Classical and Renaissance sculpture. There, he became court sculptor of the Medici Dukes. He was famed for compositional sophistication, sensuous, tactile treatment of human body, and sheer technical virtuosity. He was extremely influential because the Med...