Foggini, Giovanni Battista

Janus, Mars und Minerva

Public Domain
  • Production um 1710-15
Der doppelgesichtige Janus wendet ein Gesicht zukunftsorientiert dem Kriegsgott Mars zu. Sein älteres, rückwärts blickendes Antlitz richtet er in die Ferne, ohne Minerva, die Beschützerin der Wissenschaften und Künste, zu bemerken. Aufgrund der Sonne auf dem Schild des Mars, ein Hinweis auf König Ludwig XIV., ist die Gruppe als antifranzösische Allegorie auf den Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg (1701–1714) zu verstehen.

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Foggini, Giovanni Battista, Janus, Mars und Minerva, um 1710-15, Museum for Kunst and Gewerbe Hamburg, Public Domain, Online: https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/object/dc00024464

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