Minerva between Geometry and Arithmetics

Minerva between Geometry and Arithmetic is a fresco fragment, usually attributed to Paolo Veronese, from 1550, but by some art historians to Anselmo Canera or Giambattista Zelotti. It was painted for the Palazzo de Soranzi in Castelfranco Veneto but is now in the Palazzo Balbi, in Venice.

The decorative scheme at the Palazzo de Soranzi was designed by Michele Sanmicheli for the Venetian patrician Piero Soranzo. He took on young painters from Verona to paint the frescoes in the four side-rooms, the main hall and the atrium – these included Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Anselmo Canera and Bernardino India, as well as Veronese. The numbers on Arithmetic's abacus may refer to those hidden by her hand (i.e. 1+2+5+6+9), the latter totalling 23, argued by some to symbolise either Veronese's age at the time or the year of Piero Soranzo and Francesca Emo's marriage, 1523. Others argue that the visibl…

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