Original of Mercury Type Andros-Farnese

Original of Mercury Type Andros-Farnese

Original of Mercury Type Andros-Farnese - statue
CensusID: 151515
Alias
Hermes Enagonios
Hermes Psychopompos
Mercury
Merkur
Hermes
Location untraced
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
sculpture
statue
bronze
unknown
yes
01
unit, 1
figure
male
standing
contrapposto
bent over to its left
seminude
drapery
chlamys
kerykeion
caduceus
winged sandals
wings
Hermes
Mercury
Type Andros-Farnese
History
Date of Creation
350-300 BC
Style
Classical Period
Artist(s)/Creator(s) Praxiteles
Relationships
Census Document(s):
> Albertini 1510 (Opusculum) > book 2 > ch. 10 > fol. Piiii v > lines 13-25
Replica(s) known to Renaissance:
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono: Antinous Belvedere - statue
London, BM, G&R: Mercury Farnese - statue
Roma, Villa Mattei: Antinous - statue
Firenze, Uffizi: Athlete with Head of Hermes of Andros-Farnese Type - statue
Firenze, Palazzo Vecchio: Hermes with Originally not Belonging Head - statue
untraced: Hermes - statue
Later known Replica(s):
Location
Inventory no.
London, Landsdowne House
NOT SPECIFIED
Location
Inventory no.
Athinai, National Museum
inv. 218
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Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
NOT SPECIFIED
Found in Salamis on Cyprus; torso only.
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Roma, art market
NOT SPECIFIED
Only the head is mentioned by Amelung (cf. bibl.).
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
St. Petersburg, Ermitage
NOT SPECIFIED
head only
Location
Inventory no.
Note(s)
Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano
NOT SPECIFIED
head only
References
Bibliography:
> Smith, A.H.: A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the
British Museum, I-III, London 1904 > vol. III, pp. 37-39, no. 1599
> Amelung, Walther: Die Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, II, Berlin 1908 > pp. 132-138, no. 53
> Wolfgang Helbig: Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 3.
Auflage, hg. unter Mitwirkung von Walter Amelung, Emil Reisch, Fritz Weege, I-II, Leipzig 1912-1913
> II, p. 163, no. 1380
> Handbuch der Archäologie, vol. 6.3., Georg Lippold: Die griechische Plastik, München 1950
(Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, 6) > p. 275
> Reinach, Salomon: Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, I-V, Paris 1897-1924 > vol. II, p.
149.10
> Karusu, Semni: Der Hermes von Andros und seine Gefaehrtin, in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen
Archaeologischen Institutes. Athenische Abteilung LXXXIV, 1969, pp. 143-157 > pp. 143-157
> Phyllis Pray Bober, Ruth Rubinstein: Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture. A Handbook of
Sources, London/Oxford 1986 > p. 58, no. 10
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