Minerva 18th century white marble H 69 cm Sculpture depicting Minerva standing, wearing a helmet and an antique-style robe; the figure holds a spear (metal rod, probably a replacement) and has her left arm outstretched. In terms of typology and formal approach, the work is close to the production of 18th-century Italian masters active in the field of renewed classicism, such as Filippo della Valle, Pietro Bracci and, for the subsequent neo-classical evolution, Antonio Canova, in whom the reinterpretation of antiquity translates into compositional balance and iconographic clarity.