Art, literature & history
Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield)
1775
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.8 × 21.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 35.6 × 27.6 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.47.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni David. Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield). Giovanni David; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_David,_Exegi_Monumentum_(Art_Inscribing_Minerva%27s_Shield),_1775,_NGA_169037.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield) — Giovanni David. 1775.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.8 × 21.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 35.6 × 27.6 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.47.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.