The suicide of Roman noblewoman Lucretia after her rape by Sextus Tarquinius, son of the last king of Rome, c. 510 BC. She stabbed herself in the heart in front of her father. La Mort de Lucrece. Copperplate engraving by János Blaschke after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

---

Size: 4717px × 6440px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1800, 18th, abbe, abrege, ancient, art, aus, baroque, bed, blaschke, book, canopy, century, claude, copperplate, dagger, de, der, design, engraving, etching, fact, father, fiction, francois, gemalde, geschichte, heart, heathen, history, honour, illustration, joseph, king, knife, la, legend, lucrece, lucretia, millot, mort, myth, mythology, noblewoman, pagan, pictures, professor, rape, romaine, roman, rome, romischen, rudolf, schalbacher, sextus, shame, son, stab, suicide, tarquin, tarquinius, vienna, xavier, zappe, ános, ’histoire