# Minerva Fighting Mars

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{{Short description|Painting by Jacques-Louis David}}
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| artist = [Jacques-Louis David](/source/Jacques-Louis_David)
| year = 1771
| medium = [Oil](/source/Oil_painting) on [canvas](/source/canvas)
| height_metric = 114
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| museum = [Musée du Louvre](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre)
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'''''Minerva Fighting Mars''''' (''Combat de Mars contre Minerve'') is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1771 by the French artist [Jacques-Louis David](/source/Jacques-Louis_David) and now in the [Louvre](/source/Louvre).

==History==
David produced the painting to compete for the [Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome) of 1771. For the competition, he and the seven other participating artists were assigned the task of painting a new work in 10 weeks on a set subject, which that year was the ''[Iliad](/source/Iliad)''. David's painting was awarded the second prize as the Prix de Rome was given to [Joseph-Benoît Suvée](/source/Joseph-Beno%C3%AEt_Suv%C3%A9e).<ref name="Lee"/> David believed that harsh criticism of his work by his teacher [Joseph-Marie Vien](/source/Joseph-Marie_Vien) had caused the prize to be awarded to an inferior painter, and became disgruntled with the academy, which he considered to be a dishonest institution.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Keith |last=Michel |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/841914986 |title=War, Terror and Carriage by Sea. |date=2013 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |isbn=978-1-135-13378-8 |oclc=841914986}}</ref> In 1774, David finally won the competition on his fourth attempt with ''[Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease](/source/Erasistratus_Discovering_the_Cause_of_Antiochus'_Disease)''.<ref name="Lee">Lee, S.  "David, Jacques-Louis". Grove Art Online.</ref>

==See also==
* [List of paintings by Jacques-Louis David](/source/List_of_paintings_by_Jacques-Louis_David)

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Régis Michel and Marie-Catherine Sahut, ''David, l'art et le politique'', Paris, Gallimard, coll. « [Découvertes Gallimard](/source/D%C3%A9couvertes_Gallimard) » (n° 46), 1988 ({{ISBN|2-07-053068-X}})

==External links==
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*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=11115 Cartelfr.louvre.fr]
*[http://www.artliste.com/jacques-louis-david/combat-minerve-contre-mars-620.html Artliste.com]

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