Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570 Design attributed to Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona Italian Picking up the narrative from the tapestry of Aglauross Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse displayed near-by, this is the final episode in the story of the god Mercurys love for the mortal princess of Athens, Herse. Emboldened by her jealous vision of Mercury and Herses union, Herses sister Aglauros barred his entry to her sisters apartments. In his anger and frustration, Mercury transformed Aglauros into stone; in the tapestry, we see her disappearing into the door-frame. Mercury can seen again at the right, flying away and leaving the longed-for union with Herse unfulfilled. Such was the appeal of Lodis designs for this tapestry series that his cartoon-models were used, and reused, for decades: Willem de Pannnemaker, one of the most admired and successful master-weavers working in Brussels, directed the weavin