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Description: | The episode represented in this painting was recounted by Livy, and was often chosen as an exemplum virtutis, an image invested with a moralising message. Lucretia killed herself after being raped by Sextus Tarquinius. Before committing suicide, she encouraged the Romans to take revenge and to overthrow Sextus's father, Tarquinius Superbus. The bearded man could be either her husband Collatinus, or Junius Brutus who led the revolts. The composition, the monumentality of the three-quarter-length figure, and the combination of Italian and Northern influences are characteristic of Vincent Sellaer's works. | Subjects: | mythology (Death of Lucretia) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Sellaer, Vincent (Flemish painter and draftsman, active mid-16th century) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Italian School Previously attributed to Massys, Jan (South Netherlandish painter, ca. 1509-1575) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8954... | Go to resource |
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