standing goddess athena marble statue contrasting light close sepia

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Standing goddess Athena. Marble statue in contrasting light. Close-up, sepia

Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and just war, patroness of crafts. Marble statue of Roman work from the 2nd century AD. After the Greek original of the first half of the 4th century BC. Made in the classical manner of the Greek sculptor Praxiteles. Exhibited in the Hall of Hercules in the State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia