The Story of Lucretia (Botticelli)
- The Story of Lucretia (Botticelli)
Infobox Painting|
title=The Tragedy of Lucretia
artist=Sandro Botticelli
year=1496-1504
type=Oil on wood
height=83.8
width=176.8
city=Boston
museum= Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
"The Tragedy of Lucretia" is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, painted between 1496 and 1504. It is housed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston.The soldier's revolt takes the centre stage, and the preceding episodes are grouped around it. In the centre of the picture Lucretia's corpse is on public display as a heroine. Above the dead woman, Brutus is calling on the army to take revenge. The soldiers are rushing up in front of the triumphal arch and the statue of David which is placed high on a column.
The use of architecture in this picture has been paralleled to that of the contemporary Filippino Lippi.
If one looks in the background of the painting, though, it appears to be 1500s France.
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