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 Detail from "Minerve chassant les Vices du Jardin de la Vertu" (Minerva chasing away Vices from the Garden of Virtues - see another detail) c. 1502 - Andrea Mantega (1431-1506) - Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Note: Male Devil with unilateral gynecomastia and carrying sacks labeled "mala" for evil, "peiora" for worse, "pesima" for worst, "immortale odium" for immortal hate, and "... et malitiae" or malice. Also note a simian or single transverse palmar crease characteristic of simians (simian flexion crease) often found among persons with Down Syndrome. 

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