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Minerva
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Gilded bronze shield, surrounded by a cartouche. In an oval medallion stands the goddess with a spear and a blank shield before a landscape, in which on the left a church and on the right a farmhouse; mountains in the background. In the border decoration two lion masks, a cherub, and fruit clusters. At the top Juno and Venus with Cupido, seated on cornucopiae.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMinerva. c. 1575 - c. 1600. Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
