Painting #C09 - Beatrice Cenci

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
- Guido Reni (1575-1642, Italian Baroque)
- oil (65 x 49 cm) c.1600
- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Palazzo Barberini (Rome)

Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599, Italian noblewoman) was famous as the protagonist in events leading to a lurid murder (patricide) trial in Rome ..... and her execution by Papal authorities.

In those days, she was stripped upper-half-naked before the execuion. The execution ground was over-crowded, and some spectators were trampled to death.



In a similar pose:

Girl with a Pearl Earing
- Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)
- oil (44.5 × 39 cm) c.1665
- The Mauritshuis (The Hague)