Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500421Scope and ContentImages of sculptures and paintings depicting the Roman god Mercury, the Roman adaption of the Greek god Hermes, and other figures from the Greek and Roman pantheon. Artworks are from the classical Greek and Roman period and later artists and sculptors including Botticelli, B Thovaldsen, Giovanni Bologna, F Rude, JT Sergel, Dosso Dossi, Alessandro Allori, Bartholomeus Spranger, Michelangelo. Images are in formats of black and white photocopies, colour plates (cut from catalogues), print outs of web pages; the folder includes information about the artists and artworks, and Mercury, one page in Italian, including photocopy of journal article: Barbara C Bowen, 'Mercury at the crossroads in Renaissance emblems', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Volume 48, 1985. p.222-229. Some sheets have annotations by GG. Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Young men in art; Mythology in artAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0038
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Mercury [/ Hermes] (c.2001-c.2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500421]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344391
