Images of Lucretia on the Net

In the representations below, composition is roughly divided into two groups: the psychological, which tends to focus on the lone figure of Lucretia, and the narrative, which tends to present an image of Lucretia within the story. The narrative group can be subdivided into continuous narratives and synoptic narratives: the former imitate a storyboard rendition of the story, following major figures through various scenes, a characteristic of Medieval art; the latter choose one moment of the story to focus on exclusively, a Renaissance preference which finally replaces the continuous narrative of Medieval art.

c.1300s Manuscript illumination in black and white. [Image tends toward the synoptic narrative].
c.1415 Boucicaut Master, MS illumination. Getty Museum. [Image tends toward the synoptic narrative without as much detail as the previous image; the psychology of the scene is hinted at] .
1470 - 80 Filippino Lippi, Scenes from the life of Verginia and Lucretia. Louvre [ONLY Verginia IMAGE AVAILABLE; SITE IN FRENCH]
1496-1504 Botticelli, tempera on panel. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. [One of the few continuous narrative images of the Lucretia story, Botticelli divides the story into three separate episodes] .
1400s-1500s Daniel Hopfer, Etching. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1500s Enea Vico, Engraving after Parmiginiano. Los Angelos County Museum of Art.
1500s, beg. Frans Crabbe van Esplegen, Painting. Cleveland Museum of Art.
1500s, beg. Venetian (?), Relief sculpture. Louvre.
1500s, beg. Northern Italian, Medallion. Louvre.
1500s, 1st 1/2 Joos van Cleve, Painting. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1500s, 1st 1/2 Lucretia bella: ceramic plate, black and white image. Louvre.
1500s, mid. Cornelis Cort, Engraving. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1500s, mid Colin Nouailher, Casket with putti and mottoes of Courtly Love, Frick Collection, NYC [LUCRETIA IMAGE NOT VISIBLE]
c.1500 Raphael , Pen and ink drawing. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
c1500/1503 Israhel van Meckenem, Engraving. National Gallery, Washington, DC.
c.1509 Luca Signorelli, The Triumph of Chastity. National Gallery, London.
c.1511-12 Marcantonio Raimondo, Engraving. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
1513 Sodoma II, Painting. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest [from the Web Gallery of Art; image is FIFTH in list]
1515 Titian, Painting. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
1528 Jörg Breu the Elder, Painting. Alte Pinakothek, Munich [from the Web Gallery of Art; image is THIRD in list]
1529 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Painting. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [one of many; appears to be same as Blaffer below]
1530 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Painting. Finnish National Gallery.
c. 1530 Circle of the Master of the "Kanis Tryptych," Stained Glass. Cleveland Museum of Art.
1530-32 Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Lady Inspired by Lucretia. National Gallery, London.
1535 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Painting. Museum in Russia (?).
1539 Heinrich Aldegrever, Engraving. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
c.1539 Parmiginiano, Painting. National Gallery, Washington, DC.
1541 Enea Vico, Engraving . Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1546 Enea Vico, Engraving. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1567 Relief of Lucretia on a (beer?) stein. Louvre [SIMILAR TO IF NOT THE SAME IMAGE AS 1576 STEIN]
1570 Jacopo da Trezzo, Cameo. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna [image is THIRD from the bottom]
1576 Relief of Lucretia on a (beer?) stein. Louvre [SIMILAR TO IF NOT THE SAME IMAGE AS THE 1567 STEIN]
1580 / 83 Veronese, Painting. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
16th century Vincent Sellaer, Painting . Bowes Museum .
c.1600 Cameo. Getty Museum.
1500s-1600s Paulus Moreelse, Woodcut . Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1600s, early Gerhard Hubert, Bronze Statue(tte?). Cleveland Museum of Art.
1600s Guido Reni, Painting, Bowes Museum
1609-12 Peter Paul Rubens, Painting [article from the Guardian about the recovery of this painting, stolen during WWII, with an image of a detail from the painting]
1612 Chiaroscuro woodcut . Los Angelos County Museum of Art.
c.1630 Workshop of Guido Reni, Painting. Los Angelos County Museum of Art.
1664 Rembrandt, Painting. National Gallery, Washington, DC.
1666 Rembrandt, Painting. Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
1695/1700 Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Painting. National Gallery, Washington, DC.
1700s Pietro Francelli, Pen and ink drawing. Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
1700s (?) Print. Public domain. University of Texas Library.
c.1730 Ludovico Mazzanti, Painting . Los Angelos County Museum of Art.
1761 Andrea Casali, Painting. Louvre.
1800s Bronze Statue. Louvre.
1800s Alexander Anderson, Engraving . Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1800s, mid Charles Christian Nahl, Pen and ink drawing. Los Angelos County Museum of Art.
1965 Frank Auerbach, Study after Titian II [based on Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia in Vienna]. Tate Gallery, London.

Submitted by Edmund DeHoratius
March 2007
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