Farnese Hermes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farnese Hermes is a celebrated Roman marble statue of Hermes (Mercury), dating to the 1st century AD, and now in the British Museum. It is considered a Roman copy of a lost Greek original from the school of Praxiteles (4th century BC).  

 

 

                                                    MESSENGER OF GOD

 

 

 

 

Hermes stands nude with a cloak draped over one shoulder. 

 

He wears winged sandals, identifying him as the messenger god.

 

 

 

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