Tanaquil (painting)

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]

Tanaquil
Artist	Domenico Beccafumi
Year	c. 1519
Medium	oil on wood
Dimensions	92.1 cm × 53.3 cm (36.3 in × 21.0 in)
Location	National Gallery of London[1], London

See also

• Kingdom of Rome

References

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.

External links

• Tanaquil at nationalgallery.org.uk