The Suicide of Lucretia 1509 - 1514
marcantonioraimondi
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light pencil work
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mechanical pen drawing
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pencil sketch
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old engraving style
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caricature
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personal sketchbook
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pen-ink sketch
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sketchbook drawing
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portrait drawing
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pencil art
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rijksmuseum over 1 year ago
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The virtuous Lucretia is raped by the royal prince Sextus Tarquinius Superbus. Unable to live with the memory of this shameful act, she stabs herself to death. The Italian engraver copied the landscape with the little bridge at the right behind the desperate Lucretia from Lucas’ engraving of Susanna and the Elders (adjacent). He omitted the buildings in the background.
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