Bust in profile of Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. Wearing a helmet decorated with wings, human face and serpent, engraved breastplate. In cameo. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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