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Mercury puts Argus to Sleep or Mercurio Addormenta Argo, illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832...

Mercury puts Argus to Sleep or Mercurio Addormenta Argo, illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Florence, 183
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Mercury puts Argus to Sleep or Mercurio Addormenta Argo, illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832 (hand-coloured engraving)
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Ademollo, Luigi (1764-1849) / Italian
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Private Collection
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hand-coloured engraving
Date
1832 AD (C19th AD)
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P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV cum Appositis Italico Carmine* Interpretationibus ac Notis, 5 VoLS (Florence, 1824, repr. 1832). Book I; Argus: A man with one hundred eyes whom Juno sets to keep guard over Io in cow form. He is killed by Mercury and Juno sets his eyes into the tail of the peacock. Mercury: Sometimes, but not always, equated with the Greek Hermes, Mercury is the god of trade and profit.

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19th century / art / god / tiredness / ancient Greece / Antiquity / Mercury (god) / mythological figure / mythology / sleep / Ademollo Luigi (1764-1849) / Italy / Europe / painter / artist / book i / mythology / god / musical instrument / music / cow / playing / sleeping / classical / yawning / player / metamorphosis / male / gods / ovid / mercurio addormenta argo / roman / Engraving / Mzengraving

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