Search Results: Minerva

Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom, medicine, commerce, handicrafts, poetry, the arts in general, and later, war. In many ways similar to the Greek goddess Athena, she had important temples in Rome and was patron of the Quinquatras festival...

A 2nd century CE marble statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of the arts and warfare. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

Arachne, from the Greek arákhnē (meaning spider), is a figure in Greek mythology whose talent for weaving was renowned and who famously challenged the goddess Minerva to a weaving competition. As told in Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 CE) Metamorphoses...

The 'Minerva of Arezzo' is a bronze Etruscan statue dating to the 3rd-2nd century BCE. (Etruscan Archaeological Museum of Florence)

Minerva and Arachne (1706), by French artist René-Antoine Houasse.

The so-called Minerva Bowl, a silver cup from the Hildesheim Treasure (Germany), the largest collection of Roman silver found outside the imperial frontiers, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE (Augustan period). (Altes Museum, Berlin)

The so-called Temple of Minerva Medica, is, in fact, a luxurious heated dining hall constructed in part in a massive residence of the emperor Gallienus.

The obelisk standing in the Piazza della Minerva is the smallest of Rome’s obelisks and it is positioned on the back of an elephant sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680 CE). The origins of this obelisk are unknown, but as it was...

The Birth of Minerva, oil on canvas by René-Antoine Houasse, 1688. Palace of Versailles.

This is a bronze bust of Minerva, goddess of wisdom. Roman period, about 50-150 CE. Bequeathed by R. Payne Knight. (The British Museum, London).