Bust of Lucrece, Roman noblewoman who stabbed herself after her rape by Sextus Tarquinius (Tarquin). Carved in emerald plasma. Lucretia. In plasma. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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