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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.
The scene on the right porch is the death of Lucretia. The frieze over the porch depicts Horatius Cocles, a warrior who defended Rome against the intervention of Lars Porsenna and the ousted last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. The scene on the left porch is the threatening of Lucretia by Sextus to extort her compliance.
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 Suicide of Lucretia is an oil on lime panel painting by Albrecht Dürer, signed and dated 1518, in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. It shows the Ancient Rome heroine Lucretia (died c. 510 BC), wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus , in a tall and narrow framing, in the act of killing herself rather than face the shame of being ...
[1] Lucretia's death is an example of suicide being a socially acceptable and honourable way to deal with shame in Roman society. [2] Writing on Ancient Greece, Elise Garrison said that many ancient victims of suicide “[were] determined to regain lost honor and restore equilibrium to society”. [3]
The Kunsthistorisches Museum now calls this figure Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Lucretia's husband, [3] but the Royal Collection identifies him as her rapist, Sextus Tarquinius (known as Tarquin), [2] as do most sources. [4] Her husband was present at her death, according to most of the differing Roman accounts of the story, and Tarquin was not.
Livy compared the story of Verginia's death to the rape of Lucretia, whose death led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC.Modern historians view the stories of Roman women such as Verginia and Lucretia as supporting traditional Roman values through the women's displays of feminine virtue and symbolization of criticisms against the tyrannical Roman government. [6]
Lucretia is a 1664 history painting of Roman noblewoman Lucretia, ... The Death of Lucretia, The Roman heroine is represented in a loose and neglected attire ...