BECCAFUMI, Domenico
(b. ca. 1486, Castel Monaperto, d. 1551, Siena)

Tanaquil

1519
Oil on wood, 92 x 53 cm
National Gallery, London

The painting depicts Tanaquil, the wife of king Tarquinius Priscus who prepared the crowning of Servius Tullius. It belongs to the series representing famous women, and executed for the Palazzo Petrucci in Siena.




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