Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
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- Object
- Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
- Accession number
- 41.190.134
- Date
- designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570
- Makers
- Willem de Pannemaker
- Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona
- Giovanni Francesco Penni
- Medium
- Wool, silk and precious metal-wrapped threads (20-22 warps per inch, 8-9 warps per cm.)
- Dimensions
- 170 1/16 x 283 1/16 in. (432 x 719 cm); weight confirmed, includes tube: 14 ft. 9 in. × 23 ft. 6 in., 199 lb. (449.6 × 716.3 cm, 90.3 kg)
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- other
- Era
- pre-1800
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool
- metal_stone