Minerva and Cupid Minerva and Cupido, The goddess sits gracefully, leaning back slightly to the left, on a throne with the right leg forward and the left back. She has turned the right shoulder of the viewer, leaning on the lost lance with her right hand, while holding the open book from which she reads on the protruding left hand. Amor, standing on one leg, leans against her left knee. He looks up at the burning torch, which he holds in his right hand, while he has raised the left one (in front of the bow?). The quiver hangs from a shoulder on a belt. Minerva wears a long tunic under a pseudo-Roman armor, the sleeves of which are rolled up and which show a ruffle at the neck. The armor, with lobes and lambrequins on the shoulders and lower edge, is decorated on the chest with a Medus mask and with a stylized leaf motif. The mantle, which hangs from the back and is tied in a knot on the left hip, is held on a belt that extends diagonally in front of the chest. She wears a helmet crowned by a rooster, from which a lock of hair falls down to the shoulder. She has pseudo-Roman sandals with lion masks at her feet. The throne is formed by a backrest bent backwards, enclosed between two seated griffins with upright wings. An irregular, slightly sloping ground serves the whole as a basis, (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena), (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros), Girolamo Campagna, c. 1600, bronze (metal), h 53.5 cm × w 21.0 cm × d 29.0 cm
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