Ceiling fresco, Room of the Woolmakers, Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Lazio, Italy

Central panel of the ceiling fresco depicting Minerva teaching mankind to wear clothes, from the Room of the woolmakers, in the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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