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Mercury About to Behead Argus
Artist: Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian, 1728-1781)
Date: c. 1770-1775
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States
Description
Argus, the giant guarding Jupiter’s mistress, is lulled to sleep and beheaded by Mercury, who was sent to rescue her.
The messenger of the gods, Hermes wore a winged cap and winged shoes. He presided over shepherds, trade, land travel, literature, athletics, oratory, and even thieving - any activity requiring agility. He was known for his cunning and shrewdness, and as the inventor of the lyre, the flute, and the pan-pipes. He is credited with the invention of foot-racing, wrestling, and boxing. He guided the souls of the dead to the underworld. In early accounts he is a patron of fertility or luck. Later he was associated with roads. Road markers, called herms, bore a representation of Hermes. Similar markers outside homes warded off evil. He used his ingenuity to save heroes on several occasions, including Odysseus twice.
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