Minerva tres amène et tres noble déesse des batailles · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Minerva tres amène et tres noble déesse des batailles
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Attica; Ancient Greece
Description: This illuminated image depicts Minerva (also known as Pallas), the goddess of wisdom and war. She is illustrated holding a sword in her right hand and a shield in her left. The shield that she is holding has a depiction of Medusa on the front. Minerva is also renown for having created weaving and wool work, however this image focusses specifically on her being the goddess of war.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17127
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17127_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Goddesses; War; Minerva; Pallas