Tanaquil (painting)

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Tanaquil
Domenico Beccafumi - Tanaquil - WGA1539.jpg
Artist Domenico Beccafumi
Yearc. 1519
Mediumoil on wood
Dimensions92.1 cm× 53.3 cm(36.3 in× 21.0 in)
Location National Gallery of London [1] , London

Tanaquil is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi, which depicts Tanaquil, a queen of Rome. [2] The work was painted by Beccafumi c. 1519 for the bedroom of Francesco Petrucci, Lord of Siena, part of a series which also included Marcia . [3] The painting depicts the queen together with broken architecture and dead plants. [4] She points to a tablet that identifies her as Tanaquil. [5]

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  1. Gowing, Lawrence (1983). The encyclopedia of visual art: Biographical dictionary of artists : Alvar Aalto - Paul Durand-Ruel. University of California: Encyclopaedia Britannica International. p. 45. ISBN   9780852291870.
  2. Gould, Cecil (1987). The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools. University of Michigan: Yale University Press. p. 24. ISBN   9780300061413.
  3. Eisenbichler, Konrad (2004). The Cultural World of Eleanora Di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena. University of Michigan: Ashgate. p. 128. ISBN   9780754637745.
  4. Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2013). Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning. John Wiley & Sons. p. X. ISBN   9781118306079.
  5. The Art Book. Phaidon Press. 1997. pp.  35. ISBN   9780714836256.