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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Bust of Minerva

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The bust is the result of the reworking and union of ancient elements from the Roman Republican age (head) in the Renaissance period (bust and helmet). The original sculpture must have belonged to an acrolith, that is a particular type of statue, mainly religious, with the head and limbs in marble fixed to a wooden scaffolding covered with fabric or metal sheets. On the basis of particular technical characteristics and precise stylistic aspects, in which the classicist imprint is influenced by the developments of Hellenistic art, it is possible to hypothesize that the bust was made in one of the workshops of Athenian sculptors who worked for the wealthy classes in Rome. of republican age. The Renaissance additions, on the other hand, were made with extreme skill by reworking ancient parts of other statues in Greek marbles, probably by Tommaso Della Porta the Elder, who already Giorgio Vasari, architect and art historian of Renaissance Florence, considered the most talented imitator of ancient things . The bust arrived in the Savoy collections very early, between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and was placed, as a representation of the goddess of wisdom and the arts, in a dominant position in the Grand Gallery of the Doge's Palace in Turin: here the Duke Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy had in fact collected its rich library and its precious collection of art and antiquities.
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Title: Bust of Minerva

Author: Anonymous

Date: II sec. a.C.

Technique: Greek marble

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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