Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques"
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- Object
- Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques"
- Accession number
- 26.260.59
- Date
- Designed 1545, woven ca. 1550
- Makers
- Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
- Joost van Herzeele
- Medium
- Wool, silk (17-19 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)
- Dimensions
- 12 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. 3 in. (381 × 403.9 cm)
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- other
- Era
- pre-1800
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool