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The Roman patrician lady Lucretia killed herself after being raped by the son of the King of Rome, an act that brought about the fall of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic in 510 B. C. [+]
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The composition, which shows the three Theological Virtues, was probably made with a painted composition in mind, though no such work survives. As Pérez Sánchez has argued, the style ind [+]
The fantastic creature in the present sheet resembles those appearing as crests of helmets in some ornamental suits of armor manufactured in Northern Italy in the middle of the sixteenth century, part [+]
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This drawing may possibly be by Cambiaso himself, though stains and other damages to the sheet impair assessment of its quality. A studio version of the composition, in reverse and in pen and brown in [+]
The drawing belongs to a collection, mostly by Cambiaso´s workshop, formerly preserved in an old album. According to Renaissance tradition, a painter needed to prove himself as an inventor of figure c [+]
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The album page on which the drawing is laid has been cut down. A lioness in a similar pose appears at the feet of a standing Bacchus in a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. KTP II, no. [+]
Although sadly much corroded, the drawing is of high quality and the handling compatible with Cambiaso´s autograph drawings. Fortitude is one of the three Theological Virtues, whose attributes are a c [+]
The encounter between Hercules and the Amazons, the ninth of his Labors, arose from his assignment to seize the girdle of Queen Hippolyte of the Amazons. Admete, the daughter of Eurystheus, had expres [+]
As related in the Homeric story, Queen Niobe, the wife of Amphion, King of Thebes, was the mother of six sons and six daughters, of whom she was greatly proud. She deemed herself superior to Latona, w [+]
Hercules used his bow when firing at the Stymphalian birds, the destruction of which was the sixth of his Labors. These voracious creatures ate human flesh, had brazen claws, wings and beaks and used [+]
