RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco
(b. 1475, Firenze, d. 1554, Tours)

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.