'Minerva chasing the vices from the garden of virtue', c1502. Artist: Andrea Mantegna

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'Minerva chasing the vices from the garden of virtue', c1502. Minerva, goddess of wisdom, one of the three chief Roman deities, was a patroness of arts and trades. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

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