Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1444 or 1445-1510), The Story of Lucretia, 1499-1500. Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Detail of The Story of Lucretia. Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Botticelli, The Story of Virginia (around 1485). Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Usually, this type of large-scale works on wooden panels, which are much more fragile and difficult to transport than canvas, never travel - especially, if they are Botticelli works. (Nathaniel Silver)
Isabella Stewart Gardner in a cartoon by Karl Stevens. Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
‘Lucretia’ is one of the most pieces of the Gardner collection but no exhibition was ever organized around it.
Karl Stevens, Lucretia, 2018. Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1444 or 1445-1510), The Story of Lucretia, 1499-1500. Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
