Mercury as personification of virtue saves souls at pre -burgled and Daphne changes to Boom, Andrea Mantegna (School of), after Andrea Mantegna, 1490 - 1499 print Mercurius kneels at the door to the pre -bored where souls are stacked on top of each other. He reaches a soul to save him. On the left is Daphne turned into a tree with a text board Virtvs Deserta. On a block of stone is the text Virtvti This is the lower half of a performance with an allegory on virtues and vices. Italy paper engraving Hermes Psychopompos: Mercury as guide of the souls. Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: whi
Mercury as personification of virtue saves souls at pre -burgled and Daphne changes to Boom, Andrea Mantegna (School of), after Andrea Mantegna, 1490 - 1499 print Mercurius kneels at the door to the pre -bored where souls are stacked on top of each other. He reaches a soul to save him. On the left is Daphne turned into a tree with a text board Virtvs Deserta. On a block of stone is the text Virtvti This is the lower half of a performance with an allegory on virtues and vices. Italy paper engraving Hermes Psychopompos: Mercury as guide of the souls. Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548)
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