# Mercury taking Flight [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: bronze, cast, and chased, mounted later on breccia ball, height 48 cm \(figure\) ## Commentary Mercury taking Flight c. 1515 bronze, cast, and chased, mounted later on breccia ball, height 48 cm \(figure\) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge According to Vasari, the figure was commissioned in 1515 by Cardinal Giulio de Medici for a fountain in the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici. ## Related artworks - [A Dancing Faun]() - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python]() - [Battle]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Chariot of Victory]() - [Conversion of St Paul]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()