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Brutus, Lucretia and Collatinus | |
Artist: | Giovan Francesco Maineri, after Ercole de' Roberti |
Medium: | Tempera on panel |
Height Metric: | 47 |
Width Metric: | 30 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Modena |
Museum: | Galleria Estense |
Brutus, Lucretia and Collatinus is a painting of in tempera on panel, attributed to Giovan Francesco Maineri but from preparatory drawings by Ercole de' Roberti. It is in the Galleria Estense in Modena.[1]
This panel, The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children and Brutus and Portia were originally part of a series of works depicting famous women of antiquity, probably commissioned by Ercole I d'Este's wife Eleanor of Aragon and referring back to the motto of her father, Ferdinand I of Naples: "Preferisco la morte al disonore" ('I prefer death to dishonour').[2]