Lucrecia Collatini coniuge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Lucrecia Collatini coniuge
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Roman Legend; Brutus; Sextus; Lucretia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: Lucretia is depicted on the left side of the engraving, lying in bed as she is approached by Sextus, her husband’s relative. Lucretia is depicted with her arms crossed against her chest as Sextus is forcing himself upon her. He is illustrated with a sword in his hands while he threatens to kill her if she screams for help. The right side of the engraving illustrates Lucretia with her husband, Collatinus, and her husband’s relative, Brutus. Lucretia told the men that Sextus had raped her in the night, and then plunged a knife into her own chest in shame.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18173
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18173_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Roman Legend; Brutus; Sextus; Lucretia