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Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi|Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar|Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Minerva depicted at top with a shield and arrow vanquishing the Giants below, from Barberinae aulae fornix

ca. 1677
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40.3 × 66.8 cm (15.9 × 26.3 in)

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