Lucretia by Guido Cagnacci: a masterpiece of Italian Baroque
Guido Cagnacci’s Lucretia is an oil on canvas painting created around 1657 and housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It depicts the suicide of Lucretia, a Roman noblewoman who took her own life after being raped by the son of King Tarquin the Proud. This heroic act triggered the revolt that ended […]
