Why it matters
Scenes of the rape and death of Lucretia and of Brutus's oath to expel the Tarquins mark the beginning of the Roman Republic: a story of revolt against tyranny, popular in the volatile Italian republics.
Did you know?
- It was painted between 1496 and 1504.
- It is painted in tempera and oil on a wooden panel.
- Isabella Stewart Gardner owned it in her lifetime.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Story of Lucretia (Botticelli) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
