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Dark red and brown textiles, a pillow, dagger, and fallen nude statue complete the scene."},"main_reference_number":"1949.203","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1578,"date_end":1580,"date_display":"1578\u201380","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; Italian, 1518-1594)","place_of_origin":"Italy","description":"<p>According to Roman history, the rape of the virtuous matron Lucretia by Tarquin, son of the Roman king, incited the people to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic around 510 BCE. Lucretia was hailed as a hero for subsequently committing suicide in an attempt to avoid any perceived dishonor to her family. Tintoretto depicted one of the most violent moments of the story with his characteristic expressive distortions of anatomy and space and vibrant treatment of light: As Tarquin and Lucretia struggle, a pillow flies through the air, her pearl necklace breaks apart, and the fabric and carved posts of the bed\u2019s canopy collapse around them.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"175 \u00d7 151.5 cm (68 7\/8 \u00d7 59 5\/8 in.); Framed: 203.9 \u00d7 181 \u00d7 8.3 cm (80 1\/4 \u00d7 71 1\/4 \u00d7 3 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":151,"height":175,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":8,"width":181,"height":203,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Art Institute Purchase Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"\"Found in France: The New Veronese, Vivarini, and Tintoretto,\" Illustrated London News (4 December 1937), p. 1015.\n\nAlfred M. Frankfurter, \"The Classic Nude: 1460\u20131905,\" Art News 37, no. 29 (1939), cover ill.\n\nPictures on Exhibit 12, no. 4 (1940), pp. 37\u201338.\n\nErich von der Bercken, Die Gem\u00e4lde des Jacopo Tintoretto (Munich, 1942), p. 119, no. 265, figs. 12\u201314.\n\nHans Tietze, Tintoretto: The Paintings and Drawings (London, 1948), p. 357, fig. 285.\n\nRodolfo Pallucchini, La giovinezza del Tintoretto (Milan, 1950), p. 151.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \"Tintoretto and El Greco,\" Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1950), pp. 22\u201323 (detail ill., cover ill.).\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \"The Windy City, Storm Center of Many Contemporary Art Movements,\" Art Digest 26, 3 (1951), p. 29 (ill.).\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \"La pittura italiana all'Art Institute di Chicago,\" Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 698\u201399 (ill.).\n\nBernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School (London, 1957), vol. 1, p. 171, vol. 2, pl. 1291.\n\nR. Pedrazzi Tozzi, \"La maturit\u00e0 di Domenico Tintoretto in alcune telle ritenute di Jacopo,\" Arte antica e moderna 12 (1960), p. 388.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 449\u201350.\n\nHans Huth, \"Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,\" in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 518.\n\nCarlo Bernari and Pierluigi de Vecchi, L'opera completa del Tintoretto, Classica dell' arte 36 (Milan, 1970), pp. 100\u201301, no. 131a (ill.).\n\nBurton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 199, 482, 571.\n\nEddy de Jongh, \"Pearls of Virtue and Pearls of Vice,\" Simiolus 8 (1975\u201376), p. 88, fig. 18.\n\nJohn D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1976), pp. 261\u201362.\n\nRodolfo Pallucchini, \"Per la storia del Manierismo a Venezia\" in Da Tiziano a El Greco:  Per la storia del Manierismo a Venezia, exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1981, p. 53.\n\nRodolfo Pallucchini and Paola Rossi, Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane (Milan, 1982), vol. 1, pp. 105, 229, no. 450 (ill.).\n\nStefania Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane: L'opera completa (Milan, 1984), pp. 46, 87, under no. 117.\n\nErasmus Weddigen, \"Jacopo Tinteretto und die Musik,\" Artibus et Historiae 10 (1984), pp. 99, 102\u201303, 188 n. 180, p. 119 nn. 185, 187.\n\nPhilipp Fehl, \"Mourning for Lucretia:  Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese\" in Nuovi studi su Paolo Veronese, ed. Massimo Gemin (Venice, 1990), pp. 279-80, 284 n. 8.\n\nDaniel Arasse, Le d\u00e9tail:  Pour une histoire rapproch\u00e9e de la peinture (Paris, 1992), fig. 166.\n\nChristopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1993), pp. 243-46. ill.\n\nSergio Marinelli, \" Aspetti della teatralit\u00e0 nell' opera di Jacopo Tintoretto\" in Jacopo Tintoretto nel quarto centenario della morta. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Venezia, 24-26 novembre 1994), ed. Paola Rossi and Lionello Puppi (Venice, 1996), p. 265, fig. 8.\n\nElizabeth Rodini, \u201cThe Language of Stones\u201d in Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 22-23, fig. 9.\n\nGarry Wills, Venice:  Lion City. The Religion of Empire (New UYork, London, Toronto, Sydney and Singapore, 2001), p. 168, fig. 50.\n\nGeorges Didi-Huberman, Ninfa Moderna.  Essai sur le drap\u00e9 tomb\u00e9 (Paris, 2002), p. 21, figs. 12 and 13 a and b.\n\nPeter Schjeldahl, \"Venetian Brass: Tintoretto's fitful brilliance,\" New Yorker, February 12, 2007, p. 87 (ill.).\n\nRobert Echols and Frederick Ilchman, Tintoretto: 1519-1594, exh. cat. (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Marsilio, 2018), pp. 194-195, 259.","exhibition_history":"New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Classics of the Nude, 1939, no. 10.\n\nNew York World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture, 1300\u20131800, 1939, no. 378.\n\nSan Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, \"Seven Centuries of Painting,\" 1939\u201340, no. Y-19.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, February 7\u2013 March 7, 1940, no. 63; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 28 May\u201323 June, 1940, no. 37; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 15\u2013 September 15, 1940, no. 4.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Painting, 1950\u201351, no. 24.\n\nNew York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings . . . for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., 1955, no. 16.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art,\"Venetian Tradition, 1956, no. 49.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 \u2013 January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola\u2019s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.\n\nMadrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), January 1-April 1, 2007, cat. 42.\n\nBoston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, March 15, 2009-August 16, 2009, cat. 46; Paris, Musee du Louvre, Sept 14, 2009-January 4, 2010.\n\nVenice, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Jacopo Tintoretto and the 500th anniversary of his birth, September 1 - December 30 2018, fig. 177; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, March 3 - June 30, 2019.","provenance_text":"Possibly Antonio Tronsarelli, Rome (died 1601) [\"Un quadro grande in tela colorito a olio di Tarquinio quando Viola Lucretia di mano del Tentoretto (sic)\"; see Matteo Lafranconi, \"Antonio Tronsarelli: A Roman collector of the late sixteenth century,\" Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), p. 545, no. 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Silberman Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1949.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":null,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":32.2828,"color":{"h":246,"l":27,"s":8,"percentage":0.010340966630770438,"population":87},"latitude":41.8791580689161,"longitude":-87.6233954551907,"latlon":"41.879158068916,-87.623395455191","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 206","gallery_id":2147483633,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":26267,"artist_title":"Tintoretto","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[26267],"artist_titles":["Tintoretto"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["oil on canvas","violence","sixteenth century","oil painting","oil paint (paint)","woman","weapons","textile","sculpture","Roman","pillows","pearls","nudes","men","man","jewelry","interior","historical figures","fabric","bedrooms","bed","16th Century","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting","painting","paint","canvas","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","Italian","painting","european painting"],"style_id":"TM-15477","style_title":"sixteenth century","alt_style_ids":["TM-13772"],"style_ids":["TM-15477","TM-13772"],"style_titles":["sixteenth century","16th Century"],"classification_id":"TM-66","classification_title":"oil on canvas","alt_classification_ids":["TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14164","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-66","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14164","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on canvas","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","Italian","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-12307","alt_subject_ids":["TM-15749","TM-12304","TM-14573","TM-14541","TM-15336","TM-12909","TM-12396","TM-8649","TM-10121","TM-14974","TM-12623","TM-14037","TM-12382","TM-12533","TM-12850","TM-13207"],"subject_ids":["TM-12307","TM-15749","TM-12304","TM-14573","TM-14541","TM-15336","TM-12909","TM-12396","TM-8649","TM-10121","TM-14974","TM-12623","TM-14037","TM-12382","TM-12533","TM-12850","TM-13207"],"subject_titles":["violence","woman","weapons","textile","sculpture","Roman","pillows","pearls","nudes","men","man","jewelry","interior","historical figures","fabric","bedrooms","bed"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","painting","paint","canvas"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"84bc6762-6a64-dde5-5dc3-ec31c75aa32b","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":["22908c5d-87dd-0064-b50d-bed3bb3d5ab1"],"sound_ids":["22908c5d-87dd-0064-b50d-bed3bb3d5ab1"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1949.203"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Tarquin and Lucretia"],"weight":13847,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-03-09T15:19:49-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-06T12:09:12-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-06T05:47:57-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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