Tarquin and Lucretia, by Titian

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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