File:Minerva Alexander Mazarin Louvre Ma3385.jpg

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English: Bust of Minerva, also known as the "Mazarin Alexander": first described in the collections of Cardinal Mazarin as a bust of Alexander the Great, bought by Louis XIV as a Minerva, the bust probably copies the type of the Mattei Athena. Porphyry and metal (bust), pastiche of the 17th century.
Dimensions H. 84.5 cm (33 ¼ in.)
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room A
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Ma 3385 (MR 1633)
Credit line Former collections of Cardinal Mazarin
Source/Photographer Jastrow (2006)

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