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

Title: Von Tullia
Subject: Tullia; Important Women; Famous Women; Assassination; Tarquinius Superbus
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This engraving is unique as it was not an actual story included in Boccaccio’s original book. The engraver and compiler of this edition appear to have included this image and story as it relates to the subsequent description about the Roman woman Lucretia. This image depicts Tullia, the husband of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and daughter of Servius Tullius. Tullia had helped her husband overthrow her father off the throne as the king of Rome in order to place her husband on the throne. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus had Servius Tullius assassinated, and his body was thrown into the streets where Tullia then ran his body over with a chariot. This image depicts this event, as Tullia is depicted riding in a horse drawn chariot as it crushes her father’s body underneath.
Image Creator: Joerg Breu (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:26035
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_26035_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Tullia; Important Women; Famous Women; Assassination; Tarquinius Superbus