BALDINI, Baccio
(b. 1436, ?, d. 1487, Firenze)

Mercury

c. 1460
Engraving, 324 x 220 mm
British Museum, London

The artist has placed this imaginary scene before the actual main civil piazza of Florence. In the background on the left is the crenellated façade of the Palazzo della Signoria and the now destroyed church of San Piero Scheraggio, and in the centre background is the Loggia della Signoria.




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