Lorenzo Lotto - Portrait of a Lady with a Drawing of Lucretia 1530-33, 96 x 110 cm. Dressed in an elaborate and softly painted costume of gleaming green and orange, the lady directs attention to a drawing held in her left hand. This shows her Roman namesake, Lucretia, about to stab herself after she had been raped. The event is supposed to have precipitated the collapse of the Etruscan royal line (510 BC) and thus led to the founding of the Roman Republic. The portrait, while displaying the beauty of the sitter, also proclaims her virtue, as underlined by the Latin inscription on the paper on the table: "Nor shall ever unchaste woman live through the example of Lucretia’.