The Death of Lucretia
The Death of Lucretia
3D
Published 2017-04-24T12:35:41+00:00
Lucretia's suicide out of shame for her rape by Sextus Tarquinius—a self-sacrifice that led to the rebellion in Rome against the Tarquins— was frequendy depicted in prints and paintings, though less often in sculpture, from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. In France during this period femmes fortes, powerful women from ancient history or myth, such as Lucretia, Cleopatra, and Dido, as well as from the Bible, such as Esther, Jael, and Judith, were popular paragons of virtue. This sculpture shares many characteristics of the morceaux de réception, works required of candidates for admission to the Académie Royale de la Peinture et de la Sculpture in Paris. About 1700 these showcases of the sculptor's talents tended to be highly dramatic, under-lifesize marble sculptures of classical subjects.
| Date de publication | 24/04/2017 |
| Titre | The Death of Lucretia |
| Date | 1709 |
| Période | Late Baroque |
| Medium | Terracotta |
| Localisation | Accademia nazionale di San luca |
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