detailedart:1-2. Mercury by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) | 3. Bust of Hermes at the British Museum[
detailedart:1-2. Mercury by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) | 3. Bust of Hermes at the British Museum[Image descriptions: bronze sculptures against warm stone backgrounds. Close up photographs. All are photographed with similar dramatic lining. 1) Mercury looks up to the left, exposing his neck, wings erupting from his curls.2) This is actually not Mercury but Perseus holding the head of Medusa. Though it is Cellini. This is in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Firenze.3) Hermes’ face is only half visible with just a hint of lips peaking over the frame. He looks concentrated or concerned, curls coming down from under his traveler’s cap and a wing emerging from the side. -- source link