IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13916
accession number:	M.19A-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze, gilt. Minerva stands, wearing a cloak draped over a cuirass and a plumed helmet, decorated with a grotesque mask. The lower part of the legs and arms are bare. The statuette is mounted on a green marble plinth.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: (with M.19B-1950) Henry Harris Collection; sold Sotheby's, London, 24 October 1950, part of lot 93, as 'Mar's and 'Venus'; bought A. Spero (£240); given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1950.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13916

PEOPLE
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Minerva

SUBJECTS
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helmet
cuirass
helmet
cuirass



CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1730
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1730
culture:	18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005)
CITATIONS
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Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Forty-second Annual Report, for the Year 1950
Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 12th December 1991
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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