Plate 4: Minerva battling the giants; from 'Barberinae aulae fornix', after the frescoes by Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of the salone of the Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi
Artist bio: Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome|Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: ca. 1677
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 10 3/16 × 22 11/16 in. (25.8 × 57.6 cm)
Classification: Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Geography:  Rome     
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession year: 1951