EXCLUSIVE AFTER-HOURS VISIT TO THE BORGHESE GALLERY with Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
April 26, 2025
2 hours
$575.00
Although not universally recognized as a work by Donatello, some art historians have proposed that the statue represents the messenger god Mercury. Like the “Dancing Angel” from the baptismal font in Siena, his puffed cheeks support the hypothesis that this could have been a part of some type of fountain in the Medici-Riccardi Palace in Florence.