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| Keywords: German Master (with the initials CSB?) - The Suicide of Lucretia - Walters 37339.jpg The suicide of the Roman heroine Lucretia was related by the historian Livy 59 BC-AD 17 Raped by an Etruscan prince she extracted an oath of vengeance from her father and husband and then stabbed herself As a result the Etruscan kings were expelled and the Roman Republic established late 6th century BC At the time her response to being raped- suicide- was considered appropriate even noble By the 1500s Lucretia was depicted as a beautiful woman whose rich garments are pulled open and who plunges a dagger into her breast This dagger is inscribed with the mark of a Nuremberg goldsmith Heinrich Ulrich The painter is identified only by his initials CSB but the colors mannerist figure type and erotic overtones suggest a German artist at the Habsburg court in Prague around 1600 1600 Renaissance oil on panel cm 66 53 3 accession number 37 339 25301 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Prague Czech Republic Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Female toplessness in paintings Paintings of the suicide of Lucretia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review German Master (with the initials CSB?) - The Suicide of Lucretia - Walters 37339.jpg The suicide of the Roman heroine Lucretia was related by the historian Livy 59 BC-AD 17 Raped by an Etruscan prince she extracted an oath of vengeance from her father and husband and then stabbed herself As a result the Etruscan kings were expelled and the Roman Republic established late 6th century BC At the time her response to being raped- suicide- was considered appropriate even noble By the 1500s Lucretia was depicted as a beautiful woman whose rich garments are pulled open and who plunges a dagger into her breast This dagger is inscribed with the mark of a Nuremberg goldsmith Heinrich Ulrich The painter is identified only by his initials CSB but the colors mannerist figure type and erotic overtones suggest a German artist at the Habsburg court in Prague around 1600 1600 Renaissance oil on panel cm 66 53 3 accession number 37 339 25301 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Prague Czech Republic Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Female toplessness in paintings Paintings of the suicide of Lucretia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
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