Minerva Fighting Mars (Combat de Mars contre Minerve) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1771 by the French artist Jacques-Louis David and now in...
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now in the National Gallery, London. It shows Minerva (goddess of war, wisdom and crafts) fighting off Mars, with the nude figure of the goddess Pax (commonly...
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Athena (redirect from Athena and Minerva)
Houasse The Combat of Mars and Minerva (1771) by Joseph-Benoît Suvée Minerva Fighting Mars (1771) by Jacques-Louis David Minerva of Peace mosaic in the...
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made three consecutive attempts to win the annual prize, (with Minerva Fighting Mars, Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children and The Death of Seneca)...
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in early works such as Antiochus and Stratonica and Minerva Fighting Mars. In this respect, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus represents a return to form for...
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violence of gods such as Mars. Beginning in the second century BC, the Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena. Minerva is one of the three Roman...
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works Portrait of François Buron (1769) Jupiter and Antiope (1771) Minerva Fighting Mars (1771) Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children (1772) The Death...
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19th-century artists also used the Venus as a model: Max Klinger based the Minerva in his Judgement of Paris on the Venus de Milo; Eugene Delacroix may have...
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ancient accounts of the fighting style—Diodorus Siculus reported that "Some of them have iron breastplates or chainmail while others fight naked". Polybius wrote...
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space around the goddess. The wind that has carried her and which she is fighting off, straining to keep steady – as mentioned the original mounting had...
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1769 oil on canvas 66 × 54 National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers Minerva Fighting Mars 1771 oil on canvas 114 × 140 Louvre Museum, Paris Jupiter and Antiope...
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victor in that fight will be the victorious city. From Rome, three brothers from a Roman family, the Horatii, agree to end the war by fighting three brothers...
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(consumed on the first day), two casks of water (lost overboard during fighting) and six casks of wine. According to critic Jonathan Miles, the raft carried...
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Pittoni's The Continence of Scipio, Susanna and the Elders, Bacchus and Ariadne, Mars and Venus, and others Caravaggio is represented by The Fortune Teller and...
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