Collaborative aesthetic guide
B.I.S. Erasmus+ project / International working group: 18
Hermes with winged petasos/ fine arts museum of Bilbao
FACT SHEET
- Artistic: Anomymus
- By object: Sculpture.
- By period: 1st century AD.
- Material and / or support: Bronze.
- Measures: 8,36 x 3,47 x 2,54 cm.
- Credit: Donated by Mercedes Basabe, widow of Manuel Taramona, 1943.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTWORK
This artwork is anonymus because nobody knows who is the painter and was painted in the 1st century AD.It is housed in the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao. We can see Hermes with a couple of wings in is helmet. Hermes is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, and the second youngest of the Olympian gods .