Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557) 1557 Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) Italian An argument among the generals of the Roman tyrant Tarquin about whose wife was the most chaste resulted in a surprise visit to Rome, where the men discovered that their women were up to no good. Only the beautiful Lucretia, wife of Collatinus, was found virtuously engaged in needlework. In the background of this woodcut, we see Collatinus with the king's son, who conceived a passion
Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557) 1557 Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) Italian An argument among the generals of the Roman tyrant Tarquin about whose wife was the most chaste resulted in a surprise visit to Rome, where the men discovered that their women were up to no good. Only the beautiful Lucretia, wife of Collatinus, was found virtuously engaged in needlework. In the background of this woodcut, we see Collatinus with the king's son, who conceived a passion for Lucretia that led to her rape and subsequent suicide. When her kinsmen, seeking vengeance, drove Tarquin from Rome, the Roman republic was founded. Giuseppe Salviati painted a fresco of the same subject on the façade of the Palazzo Loredan in woodcut is cut from the second page of what appears to be the first edition of the lacebook by Giovanni Ostaus, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami, Venice, Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557) 372747
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