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Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques"

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Joost van Herzeele

Designed 1545, woven ca. 1550

Attribution

Probably designed in the workshop of|Perhaps woven in the workshop of Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Joost van Herzeele | Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome|Flemish, active before 1580–89

Medium

Wool, silk (17-19 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

Physical dimensions

12 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. 3 in. (381 × 403.9 cm)

Credit line

Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926