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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 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 [+]
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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 [+]
