![]() ![]() Most of these are " Giorgionesque" genre or tronie subjects where the subjects are anonymous. The painting can be seen as one of a number of Venetian paintings of the 1510s showing two or three half-length figures with heads close together, often with their expressions and interactions enigmatic. The robe's green is particularly bright, witnessing to the high quality of pigments available in Venice. As in other treatments of the subject, there are sensual elements, such as Lucretia's falling robe and almost-bared breast. Her face looks up to the divine illumination coming from above, giving her the strength to commit the act. The painting depicts Lucretia about to commit suicide to preserve her honour after disclosing her rape by Sextus Tarquinius the previous night, making her the model of Roman female virtus. If the figure is intended to be Tarquin, the setting must be the night before, with Lucretia perhaps making her plan. ![]() Her husband was present at her death, according to most of the differing Roman accounts of the story, and Tarquin was not. The Kunsthistorisches Museum now calls this figure Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Lucretia's husband, but the Royal Collection identifies him as her rapist, Sextus Tarquinius (known as Tarquin), as do most sources. However, the addition of a male figure just behind her is all but unique. Lucretia poised with a dagger, about to commit suicide, was becoming a very common subject in art. There is an early copy in the Royal Collection. However, others identify the painting as part of Titian's series of half-length female figures from 1514 to 1515, which also includes the Flora at the Uffizi, the Woman with a Mirror at the Louvre, the Violante and the Young woman in a black dress in Vienna, Vanity in Munich and the Salome at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj. The attribution to this artist is traditional but uncertain - the brightened palette suggests it could instead be by Palma Vecchio. Lucretia and her Husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus or Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting attributed to Titian, dated to around 1515 and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 1515 painting by Titian Lucretia and her Husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ![]()
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