Tanaquil (painting) explained

Tanaquil
Artist:Domenico Beccafumi
Year:c. 1519
Medium:oil on wood
Height Metric:92.1
Width Metric:53.3
City:London
Museum:National Gallery of London[1]

Tanaquil is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi, which depicts Tanaquil, a queen of Rome.[2] The work was painted by Beccafumi c. 1519 for the bedroom of Francesco Petrucci, Lord of Siena, part of a series which also included Marcia.[3] The painting depicts the queen together with broken architecture and dead plants.[4] She points to a tablet that identifies her as Tanaquil.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gowing, Lawrence. The encyclopedia of visual art: Biographical dictionary of artists : Alvar Aalto - Paul Durand-Ruel. Encyclopaedia Britannica International. 1983. 9780852291870. University of California. 45.
  2. Book: Gould, Cecil. The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools. Yale University Press. 1987. 9780300061413. University of Michigan. 24.
  3. Book: Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Cultural World of Eleanora Di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena. Ashgate. 2004. 9780754637745. University of Michigan. 128.
  4. Book: Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L.. Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning. Christiane Joost-Gaugier. X. John Wiley & Sons. 2013. 9781118306079.
  5. Book: The Art Book. Phaidon Press. 1997. 9780714836256. 35.

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