Minerve – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Minerve. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This engraving is titled *Minerve*, the French form of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, crafts, and strategic war, whom the Greeks called Athena. Engraved by J.J. Avril after a drawing by Granger, the print belongs to a long European tradition of classical subjects that artists and publishers reproduced for education, decoration, and the taste for antiquity. The caption card gives no date, so its exact moment of production is uncertain. Still, the image shows how Enlightenment and later neoclassical artists presented the goddess: calm, armored, and composed, with her helmet and spear signaling that wisdom and warfare were, in her case, two sides of one character.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by J.J. Avril after drawing by Granger. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mythology; Women; Warriors; Pub. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,053 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157054 |
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