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Tarquin and Lucretia, by Titian

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An image of Tarquin and Lucretia. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 188.9 cm, width 145.1 cm, circa 1571.

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Tarquin and Lucretia. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 188.9 cm, width 145.1 cm, circa 1571.

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  • Accession Number: 914
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 789 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 836.49kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2010:01:11 19:41:26

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16th Century attack bed clothes clothing costume dagger defend dramatic female Fitz_PDP interior Italian Late Renaissance literary figures Lucretia male man nude nudity oil on canvas painting rape Renaissance Shakespeare Tarquin threaten Titian Tiziano Vecellio Venetian School woman

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