Tag: Pax

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640, Minerva protects Pax from Mars (‘Peace and War’), c. 1629-30 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes, #10b

May 13, 2018

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Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640 Minerva protects Pax from Mars (‘Peace and War’), c. 1629-30 Oil on canvas 203.5 x 298 cm The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London Minerva drives away Mars, god of war, in Rubens’ powerful anti-war painting, a visual plea for peace between England and Spain in 1630, presented as a gift to…