Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars

{{Short description|Painting by Peter Paul Rubens}}

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| title = Minerva protects Pax from Mars

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| other_title_1 = Peace and War

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| image = Rubens peace-war.jpg

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| artist = Peter Paul Rubens

| year = 1629–30

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| medium = Oil on canvas

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| height_metric = 203.5

| width_metric = 298

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| museum = National Gallery

| city = London

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Minerva protecting Peace from Mars or Peace and War is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. He produced it in London between 1629 and 1630, during a diplomatic mission from the Spanish Netherlands to Charles I of England. It is now in the National Gallery, London.{{cite web |title=Description – Minerva protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War') |url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/peter-paul-rubens-minerva-protects-pax-from-mars-peace-and-war |publisher=The National Gallery |access-date=29 November 2021}}

It shows Minerva (goddess of war, wisdom and crafts) fighting off Mars, with the nude figure of the goddess Pax (commonly known as "Peace" in English) in the centre.