Hermes2.0010_Donatello

Hermes2.0010_Donatello

Khan Academy video
3-D model on Wikimedia"
OGCMA s.v. "Hermes"
Classical Sources:
Homer, Iliad 24.334-469, 679-94
Homer, Od. 5.28-148, 10.275-308, 24.1-10
Homeric Hymns "To Hermes"; and "To Demeter" 334-84
Horace C. 1.10
Ovid Met. 2.685-835, 8.618-724, 11.303-17
Apollodorus Libr. 1.6.2-3, 2.1.3, 2.4.21, 3.2.1, E3.5

Donatello [Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi], ca. 1386-1466, "David", ca. 1430, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

argued by DBrinkerhoff W19 as reception of Mercury.

Two views of Donatello's bronze statue of David, a nude male figure wearing a hat, standing with a sword and a head at his feet

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.