Engraving of a woman with a spear and a round shield carved with a face, wearing loose drapery, with clouds and rocks behind her.

Pallas Athena (Minerva) engraving by Lucas van Leyden

An engraving shows a woman with her hair pinned up, holding a long spear diagonally over her shoulder while a round shield decorated with a face rests beside her. Loose drapery falls around her legs, and billowing cloth and clouds fill the sky behind rocky ground.

Artist: Lucas van Leyden
Date: ca. 1530
Medium: Engraving on laid paper
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 870 × 1280 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1535).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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