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The Suicide of Lucretia (Dürer)

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Her face bears elements of idealisation, although for the most part she is presented as a real woman. Her expression, near identical to the 1508 drawing, is difficult to interpret, as it contains none of the passivity, chastity, or sly sidelong glances usually associated with contemporary depictions
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Her wound is not at the center of her belly, as in the 1508 drawing, but below her right breast, echoing Christ's lance wound. Critics have mentioned how the act is bloodless, without any of the spatterings on bed sheets usually associated with similar treatments from the time. However the painting
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The feminist scholar Linda Hults observes how "there is a mechanical quality to Lucretia's suicidal gesture; it seems to operate apart from her facial expression, and it does not seem to require the assistance of her other arm, which is oddly placed behind her back."
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Lucretia stands in front of a cramped and harshly lit room containing the bridal bed on which she was raped. She looks to the sky as if asking the gods to witness her suicide. Her face betrays feelings of disgrace as she stabs herself with a sword to the belly.
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was executed with finesse, with the brush strokes representing the cloths especially detailed, and composed of a variety of red, blue, and green pigments. The white drapery around her hips is a later addition from around 1600.
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The panel is Dürer's second treatment of Lucretia, following a very similar 1508 drawing. The earlier composition, drawn in ink with wash on paper, is in the
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Art historians tend not to view it as one of his best paintings, and it is often compared, unfavourably, to a similar work by
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pose. The painting has been described as one of Dürer's most unpopular works, with many art historians, including
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She is given a monumental and statuesque pose, but without the sense of pagan sensuality present in his 1507
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Carluccio, Luigi. "Giacometti: A Sketchbook of Interpretive Drawing". New York: H.N. Abrams, 1967. 68
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described her as "a parody rather than an exaltation of the classical feminine figure."
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Hults, Linda. "Dürer's "Lucretia": Speaking the Silence of Women".
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Alte Pinakothek Munich: An explanatory guide to the Alte Pinakothek
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Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700
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panel painting
Albrecht Dürer
Alte Pinakothek
Munich
Ancient Rome
Lucretia
Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus
Sextus Tarquinius
Albertina
Vienna

Albertina

Adam and Eve
Prado
Madrid
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alberto Giacometti

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Sinebrychoffin taidemuseo

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Adam and Eve
Prado
Madrid
contrapposto
Max Friedländer
Erwin Panofsky

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