Hermes Collection (#3)

Io changed into a cow: Mercury cuts off Argus head, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Io changed into a cow: Mercury cuts off Argus head, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Prometheus Bound, c1640. Artist: Jacob Jordaens
Prometheus Bound, 1640. Hermes, messenger of the gods, watches as the eagle swoops down to peck out the liver of the chained Prometheus. Each night the liver regenerated

Mercury holding a purse, carrying a travellers cloak. Roman brronze, 1st century. Mercury is also the God Hermes, the purse is symbollic of a bringer of good fortune

Pot showing Charon and Hermes in the underworld
This pot shows Charon and Hermes in the underworld: Charon is on the left, rowing his boat across the river Styx, and Hermes arm can be seen on the right, acting as a psychopomp

The Rape of Europa, 1560-1561. Artist: Titian (1488-1576)
The Rape of Europa, 1560-1561. Found in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Rape of Europa. Artist: Cazes, Pierre-Jacques (1676-1754)
The Rape of Europa. From a private collection

Roman replica of a Greek relief of Orpheus and Eurydice
A Roman replica of a classical Greek relief, showing from right to left Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes. The names above the figures are incorrect and appear to have been added in medieval times

The Richelieu Mercury, 2nd century
A statue of the Greek god Hermes. A Roman copy of a 4th century Greek original, from the Louvres collection, 2nd century

Hermes, Greek god. Marble statue of Hermes (Mercury in the Roman pantheon), messenger of the gods, god of roads and travellers, holding his caduceus or heralds staff

Persephone Taking Leave of Pluto with Hermes and Demeter standing nearby, c550BC-c525 BC. Attic Black-figured Kylix, From Vucli. British Museum

Hermes. Greek relief from Thasos, Greece, c470 BC. Relief of the Passage of Theori, from the agora of Thasos. Thasian marble with traces of polychromy

Statue of Hermes, 2nd century. After a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century BC. The Roman equivalent of Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, was Mercury

Head of Hermes, early 2nd century. Roman, after the Greek original of the 430s-420s BC. The Roman equivalent of Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, was Mercury

Herm of Hermes. Roman, after a Greek original by Alkamenes of c450-c440 BC. The Roman equivalent of Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, was Mercury, Found in the collection of The Hermitage

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