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Lucretia is a 1666 history painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. It is an oil painting on canvas that depicts a myth about a woman named Lucretia who lived during the ancient Roman eras. She committed suicide to defend her honor after being raped by an Etruscan king's son.
The story of Lucretia was a popular moral tale in the later Middle Ages. Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo, reserved for the nobles of Rome and other "virtuous pagans", in Canto IV of the Inferno. Christine de Pizan used Lucretia, just as St. Augustine of Hippo did, in her City of Ladies, defending a woman's sanctity.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Lucretia is a 1664 history painting of Roman noblewoman Lucretia, historically attributed to the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
It depicts Lucretia in the moment before she commits suicide by putting a dagger into her chest. [3] In its time printers would display images of Lucretia with Dido. [4] Copies of the image have a Greek language inscription with it. [4] According to art historian Patricia Emison, the image typifies a contemporary style depicting females ...
Lucretia is a painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It depicts Lucretia , the wife of Roman consul and general Collatinus , at the moment of her suicide. The decision to take her own life was made after she was blackmailed and raped by Sextus Tarquinius, a fellow soldier of Collatinus.
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A painting of Lucretia was recorded in prince Ranuccio I Farnese's collections at the end of the 16th century, but Barri's 1670 description of the ducal palace mentions two paintings of Lucretia by Parmigianino, one in the Audience Chamber and one in the "Camera degli Amoretti". The second is now lost but was a full-length work, probably ...
Lucretia is a painting by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. [1] It is one of three paintings that Gentileschi painted of Lucretia , the wife of Roman consul and general Tarquinus , at the moment of her suicide.