Oval oil painting on canvas depicting LUCREZIA.
Work of an Emilian Master from the mid-17th century.
Oval frame from the 18th / 19th century.
According to legend, Lucrezia, wife of a Roman patrician, was a hard-working and faithful woman.
Sextus Tarquinius, Lucrezia's brother-in-law, was fascinated by her and was seized by the desire to possess her, so he entered Lucrezia's bedroom attacking her, armed with a sword.
She tried to push him away but Sextus threatened her, so much so that she submitted to the man's will.
Unable to bear the weight of that horror, after informing her husband and father, she killed herself by stabbing herself with a dagger.
cm.60x42