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LIPPI, Filippino: The Story of Lucretia

🖼 The Story of Lucretia, 1478-80
Tempera on wood
42 × 126 cm
Florence, Italy

Dramatic narrative unfolds across multiple scenes rendered in luminous tempera, depicting Lucretia's tragic story with Renaissance precision and emotional intensity. This panel exemplifies Filippino Lippi's mastery of sequential storytelling and his influence on Florentine Renaissance art, combining classical themes with intimate human drama.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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