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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAM-can-025. Goddess Athena (Minerva) wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with the image of a swirling snake and scaly torso-aegis with snakes-fringe and winged gorgoneion (the severed head of Gorgon Medusa) and protecting a youth from the cupids' (erotes') arrows with her round aspis (hoplon?) shield. |
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| Polychrome oil paint, canvas |
Painting (Wisdom Defending Youth from the Arrows of Love, detail) |
Charles Meynier (1763-1832) |
French Neoclas- sicism, 1810 |
Paris (?), France |
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Inventory № 46550 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First* Canadian Expedition, 6-8 September 2015, 20-21 May 2017, 1-3 September 2017, 23-24 September 2018). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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