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

Title: Von Lucrecia
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Roman Legends; Sextus; Collatinus; Lucretia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: Lucretia is depicted on the right side of the engraving, lying in bed as she is approached by Sextus, her husband’s relative. The creator engraved Lucretia’s name beside the bed to identify her. Lucretia is depicted with her hands crossing her chest as Sextus is forcing himself upon her. He is illustrated with a sword in his hands while he threatens to kill her if she screams for help. The left side of the engraving illustrates Lucretia with her husband, Collantinus, and her husband’s relative, Brutus (Brutus’ name is engraved below his feet). Lucretia told the men what Sextus had done to her in the night, and then plunged a knife into her own chest in shame.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18034
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18034_OBJ.png