Lucretia
Paolo Veronese · 1580
Why it's great
A Roman woman raises a dagger to her chest in a gloomy room, as she is determined to end her life to save her honor. Paolo Veronese painted it in about 1580, and the story is about the start of the Roman Republic.
Where to see it
📍 Kunsthistorisches MuseumInnere Stadt, Austria
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Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter born in Verona in 1528. He moved to Venice, where he became famous for huge, colorful pictures of feasts and ceremonies full of costumes and architecture. He died in Venice in 1588.
