Lucretia: Muse of Chastity Aubrey HansonApril 15, 2010
-Excerpt of “The Rape of Lucrece” by William Shakespeare, O, teach me how to make mine own excuse! Or at least this refuge let me find; Though my gross blood be stain’d with this abuse, Immaculate and spotless is my mind That was not force; that never was inclined To accessory yieldings, but still pure Doth in her poison’d closet yet endure.
Kathleen Ferrier in “The Rape of Lucretia” England, 1946
Lucas Cranach Lucretia 1533
Andrea Casali Lucretia c. 1750
Paolo Veronese Lucretia c.1585
Sandro Boticelli spalliera- The Story of Lucretia c.1480
Titian Tarquin and Lucretia 1570
Philippe Bertrand Lucretia Committing Suicide 1704