Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne)

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

ca. 1490–1525 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne) — Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Artist
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Date
ca. 1490–1525
Medium
Engraving
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz Gift, 1954
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