Von Lucretia · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Lucretia
Subject: Lucretia; Sextus; Collatinus; Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Roman Mythology; Brutus
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: Lucretia is depicted nude on the right side of the engraving, lying in bed as she is approached by her husband’s realative, Sextus. Sextus is illustrated with a sword in his left hand as he threatens to kill Lucretia if she screams for help. The left side of the engraving illustrates Lucretia with her husband, Collatinus, and her husband’s relative, Brutus. Lucretia told the men that Sextus had raped her in the night, and then plunged a knife into her own chest in shame.
Image Creator: Joerg Breu (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18340
Language: ger
Source Name: Ein schöne Cronica oder Hystoribuch von den fürnämlichsten Weybern [A beautiful chronicle or history book of reputable women]
Parent Collection: 1543 Stayner; 1543 Stayner
Image: mta_18340_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Lucretia; Sextus; Collatinus; Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Roman Mythology; Brutus