Illicit arousal: the erotic subtext of Tintoretto's Tarquin and Lucretia.(Jacopo Tintoretto)(Critical essay)

From: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: DeTurk, Sabrina | Copyright information

As told and retold in the Classical era and on through the Renaissance by authors such as Livy, Ovid, Salutati and Machiavelli, the narrative of the rape and subsequent suicide of Lucretia has held a significant place in cultural mythology. (1) The figure of Lucretia, the Roman matron who, following her rape by a kinsman, Tarquin, resolved to cleanse her own and her family's honor by stabbing herself to death, was seen differently by the various authors, and presumably readers, who...

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