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| Keywords: Giovanni Maria Mosca - Lucretia - Walters 27252.jpg This exquisite marble sculpture is one of a series of small reliefs attributed to Mosca showing heroes and heroines of antiquity Represented here is the story of Lucretia who after having been raped by Sextus Tarquinius stabs herself in front of a group including her husband and father to prove her innocence Originally the figure held a knife in the missing hand and was in the process of committing suicide which explains the anguished expression on her face The inlaid blue stone contrasts with the cool whiteness of the marble The Latin inscription reads an example of chastity for married women ca 1550 Renaissance marble with lapis lazuli cm 34 5 24 accession number 27 252 16198 Benoit-Oppenheim Collection Berlin 1907 Lippmann Collection London date and mode of acquisition unknown Jacques Seligmann and Company Paris Henry Walters Baltimore June 1928 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 Transcription Inscribed CASTIS EXEMPLAR UXORIBUS Translation An example of chastity for married women Antiquity in the Renaissance Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1978 Tiziano Vecellio Amour Sacro e Profano Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome 1995 Il Camerino di Alabastro di Alfonso I d'Este Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica Castello Estense Ferrara Ferrara 2004 An Antiquity of Imagination Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture National Gallery of Art Washington 2009 place of origin Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Giovanni Maria Mosca Lucretia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
