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Story of Virginia - Botticelli

Date :
Entre 1498 et 1504
Type of image :
Peinture sur bois
Dimensions (HxL cm) :
83,3x165,5 cm
Storage Location :
58MR00002
inv. 929-1891, salle 4

Description

The story of Virginie is told in Book III of Titus Livius' Roman History . It is repeated by Petrarch and Boccaccio.

History :

2. Executed for the Casa Vespucci in Florence.
Bequeathed to the museum by Giovanni Morelli in 1891.
Barbara Deimling mistakenly states that this cassone panel is at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, probably through confusion with the one in the Lucretia story.

Indexed items :
Trône, siège de commandement
Tableau sur le mur
Perspective d’architecture
Colonnade
Textual Sources :
Tite-Live, Histoire romaine, livre III

Technical Data

Notice #001217

Image HD

Past ID :
A0536
Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Wikimedia commons