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Description: | Tuccia, a priestess of the temple of Vesta, accused of being unchaste, established her innocence by carrying water from the Tiber in a basin pierced with holes. She is shown hurrying, the basin in her hands, towards a group of priests waiting in front of a ruin. In the background an abbreviated view of the Castel Sant'Angelo and a bridge spanning a river stand for ancient Rome and the Tiber. The subject of the picture suggests that, though on canvas, it may originally have been a so-called cassone painting, used for the decoration of a dowry chest. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; mythology (Ordeal of Tuccia) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tintoretto, Jacopo (Italian painter, 1519-1594) Æ Attributed to studio of Previously attributed to Schiavone, Andrea (Italian painter, printmaker, and draftsman, ca. 1500-1563, born in Dalmatia) Previously attributed to Sustris, Lambert (Italian and Dutch painter, born ca. 1515-after 1560) Previously attributed to Tintoretto, Jacopo (Italian painter, 1519-1594) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8809... | Go to resource |
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