Athena1.0xxx_Mantegna

Athena1.0xxx_Mantegna

Musee du Louvre
ogcma s.v. "Athena"
Classical Sources:

Andrea Mantegna, "Allegory of Vice and Virtue", ca. 1499-1502, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 371 (Denon, Grande Galerie, 1st Floor room 5)
Minerva is casting the Vices out of the Garden of Virtues. One by one they make their way, quickly or in slovenly demeanor: Idleness (unarmed), Sloth, Hate, Venus (representing lust?), Ignorance (borne by Avarice and Ingratitude), while Justice, Fortitude, and Virtue watch from the heavens. Don't miss Daphne in the Garden's fringe. See L. Impelluso, Gods and Heroes in Art (Getty 2002), 172.

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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