The Story of Virginia (Botticelli)

Painting by Sandro Botticelli

The Story of Virginia

Italian: Storie di Virginia
Artist| Sandro Botticelli
Year| 1500–1504
Medium| tempera on panel
Dimensions| 86 cm × 165 cm (34 in × 65 in)
Location| Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

The Story of Virginia (Italian, Storie di Virginia), is a painting by the early Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. It is a tempera on panel and measures 86 cm tall and 165 cm wide. It is in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Italy.

It is one of the last works that Botticelli made exemplifying virtue, like The Story of Lucretia.

The painting has a fundamental theme of violated honor and matrimonial fidelity. The combination of several scenes in a single image was common in the art of the early Renaissance. These are read from left to right:

* Virginia, in the company of other women, is violated or assaulted by Marcus Claudius, who wants to force her to yield to Appius Claudius Crassus;
* He carries her to the tribunal presided by Appius Claudius who declares her a slave;
* The father and the husband of the woman plead for clemency
* The father, to preserve the family honor, kills her and flees on horseback.

This story is developed within a setting of classical architecture, in which the figures are agitated, painted with vibrant colors.

## See also

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* List of works by Sandro Botticelli

## References

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* "Botticelli", Los grandes genios del arte, n.º 29, Eileen Romano (dir.), Unidad Editorial, S.A., 2005, ISBN 84-89780-97-8

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List of works

Secular|

* Fortitude
* Primavera
* Pallas and the Centaur
* Venus and Mars
* The Birth of Venus
* Calumny of Apelles
* Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
* The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part one
* Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman
* A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts
* The Story of Virginia
* The Story of Lucretia

Religious|

* Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece
* The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes
* The Return of Judith to Bethulia
* Adoration of the Magi (Florence)
* Saint Sebastian
* Life of Esther
* Saint Augustine in His Study (Florence: Ognissanti)
* Sistine Chapel: Temptations of Christ, Youth of Moses and Punishment of the Sons of Korah
* Cestello Annunciation
* Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Munich)
* Saint Augustine in His Study (Florence: Uffizi)
* Pala delle Convertite (Trinity)
* Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Milan)
* The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
* The Mystical Nativity
* Mystic Crucifixion
* Scenes from the Life of Saint Zenobius
* The Man of Sorrows

Madonnas|

* Virgin and Child with an Angel (Florence)
* Madonna della Loggia
* Madonna and Child (Avignon)
* Madonna delle Grazie
* Madonna in Glory with Seraphim
* Madonna of the Rose Garden
* Virgin and Child with Two Angels (Naples)
* Virgin and Child with Two Angels (Strasbourg)
* Virgin and Child with an Angel (Boston)
* Bardi Madonna
* Madonna of the Magnificat
* Madonna of the Book
* Madonna of the Pomegranate
* Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels
* Annunciation
* Glasgow
* New York
* Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Cleveland)
* Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (São Paulo)
* Madonna del Padiglione

Portraits|

* Portrait of Smeralda Brandini
* Young Man (London)
* Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
* Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici
* Young Man (Washington, D.C.)
* Young Woman (Frankfurt)
* Young Man (Florence)
* Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel

Related|

* Botticelli Inferno (2016 documentary)
* Botticelli (crater)

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