Mercurio sale in cielo per convocare gli Dei: Amorini nelle vele (Mercury ascends to the heavens to call together the gods: Cupids in the "sails") / Nicolas Dorigny [artwork]
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- Title
- Mercurio sale in cielo per convocare gli Dei: Amorini nelle vele (Mercury ascends to the heavens to call together the gods: Cupids in the "sails") [artwork]
- Artist
- Dorigny, Nicolas, 1658-1746
- Date Created
- 1693
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- Sheet: 18 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (46.3 x 73.0 cm.); plate impression: 15 x 26 1/8 inches (38.1 x 66.3 cm.)
- Artist notes
- after a fresco by Raphael Santi, or Sanzi or Sanzio, called Raphael or Raphael Urbinas, painter, draughtsman, sculptor and architect, 1483-1520
- Artist nationality
- French
- Artist role
- history painter, draughtsman, and engraver
- Original artist
- Raphael, 1483-1520
- Inscription
- Recto: bottom center: (all text in Latin) Mercurius uocalis Deus ex Iouis mandato Deos omnes ad concionem conuocat de Cupidinis ac Psyches coniugio sententiam laturi. ; bottom left: Pennatus hic Veneris puer Bacchi exuuijs superbit, trophaeum pampineis uuis insigne extollens, / ebria Tygride insequente, huic Deo uitis uinique conditori sacrâ. ; bottom right: Panis ruralis Dei agrestes calamos puer alter exhibet, Auibus Noctuam illudentibus in ludi: / brium huius Dei qui cum Apolline de cantu ausus est contendere. ; l. l.: Raphael Sanctius Vrbinas inuentor. ; center, bottom edge: Typis ac Su[m]ptibus Dominici de Rubeis Io. Iacobi filij ac Heredis. Romae ad Templum S.tae Mariae de Pace cum Priuil. Summi Pontificis. et Sup. perm. Anno 1693. ; l. r.: Nicolaus Dorigny Gallus delin. et sculp.; l. r.: [plate number] 6 ; l. l.: (on sheet, in pencil) 1693 ; verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/624; l. r.: (in pencil) 3 50
- Medium
- Etching.
- Condition
- Fine condition. Vertical crease in center is probably its natural fold as plate from book.
- Provenance
- Source not known.
- Instrument
- Posthorn, Panpipes
- Century
- 17th century
- Subject
- Reproductive print [after well-known artist]
- Miller category
- Mythological, etc.
- Miller ID
- 0596/U
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014