The Story of Lucretia (c. 1530): Art, History and Details

The Story of Lucretia (c. 1530) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The tribulations of the Roman noblewoman Lucretia, a well-known story from classical antiquity, is represented here in a northern setting. Assaulted in the background by Tarquinius, she is sorrowful in the foreground. At her side are her two brothers who will seek revenge. The style is closely related to panel paintings by a distinct yet anonymous master whose best-known work is the triptych commissioned around 1526 by Jacob Kanis of Nijmegen and now housed in the museum Commanderie van Sint Jan of that city.

Object facts

• Title: The Story of Lucretia
• Date: c. 1530
• Creator attribution: Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish)
• Culture: Netherlands, Nijmegen, 16th century
• Type: Glass
• Technique: pot-metal and white glass, silver stain and sanguine
• Dimensions: Overall: 71.2 x 51.2 cm (28 1/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Renaissance
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1951.335

Collection credit

Bequest of William G. Mather

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William, and Henry Francis. "Bequest of William G. Mather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 8 (October 1951): 196-198

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