Andrea Mantegna · 1502
Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue
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Minerva in a yellow tunic and plumed helmet drives hideous figures of the Vices out of a hedge-walled garden with arched openings, while three Virtues float on a cloud above and Diana is rescued from a centaur. Louvre Museum, Paris.
Up to 19.4 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue
The Triumph of the Virtues, 160 x 192 cm, tempera on canvas, was the second painting Mantegna made for Isabella d'Este's studiolo, after Parnassus (1497). It shows a marsh enclosed by a tall fence ruled by the Vices, drawn as hideous figures with identifying labels; Minerva drives out Idleness and rescues Diana from a centaur symbolising lust, while Justice, Temperance and Fortitude float above.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
All Andrea Mantegna prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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