Head of Minerva
by CLOVIO, Giulio, Gray chalk, 280 x 197 mm
In this chalk drawing Minerva is seen in profile, looking toward the left. She is wearing an imaginative helmet depicting a battle scene. This head unmistakably follows Michelangelo’s ideal portraits, it reveals closest parallels to Michelangelo’s presentation drawings for Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, such as that of Cleopatra.