# Side wall picture: The Fine Arts and Mercury

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FABBRINI, Giuseppe Antonio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fabbrini-giuseppe-antonio-r6b8cb22a8f57dc>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The picture shows one of the side wall pictures in the Segretaria del Granduca, the most important room of the grand duke&#39;s official rooms in the west wing. Here the personifications of the fine arts, with their titulary god Mercury are depicted.

## Related artworks

- [Side wall picture: Apollo, Pegasus, and the Muses](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fabbrini-giuseppe-antonio-r6b8cb22a8f57dc/side-wall-picture-apollo-pegasus-and-the-muses-refe2add5fd0770>)
- [Side wall picture: Classical Offering Rite](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fabbrini-giuseppe-antonio-r6b8cb22a8f57dc/side-wall-picture-classical-offering-rite-r04ee2a0fbe0409>)
- [View of the Segretaria del Granduca](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fabbrini-giuseppe-antonio-r6b8cb22a8f57dc/view-of-the-segretaria-del-granduca-r90ab79260d932d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)