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DOI article:Miziołek, Jerzy: The story of Lucretia on an Early-Renaissance "Cassone" at the National Museum in Warsaw
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1 2. The story of Lucretia, cassone, wherabouts unknown (Photo after, Pittura dal Duecento...,
op. cit.)
13. The story of Lucretia, Zurich, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum (Photo after G. Freuler,
Manifestatori..., op. cit.)
from research madę both on the anonymous Florentine painter presently referred to as
the Master of Ladislas of Durazzo (Ladislas of Durazzo was the king of Naples in
1390-141 4).21
The Master of Ladislas of Durazzo, to whom are currently attributed morę than 20
works, most of these being cassoni or deschi da parto, worked attheturn of the 14th
and 1 5th centuries (being most probably still active as late as the 1420s); he would
appear to have been the author of at least 7 cassoni depicting the story of Lucretia.22
The earliest of these, carried out in the 1 380s or 1 390s, preserved at one time at
Castello Vincigliata near Florence, and the various episodes are divided by elaborate,
gilt gesso decoration into three compartments which present: the king's son stealing
into Lucretia's cham ber; Lucretia stabbing herself in the presence of a servant and only
two men - almost for certain her husband and father - and the banishing of Tarquin
from Romę (Fig. 10).23 Almost as though intended to avoid any confusion with
identifying the scenes, two of them are provided with inscriptions: Lucrezia and
Roma. Among the subsequent 6 cassoni produced by the same Master, at the turn of
the 1 4th and 1 5th centuries, two portray initial episodes from the story (one of them
belonging to the Czartoryski Collection (Fig. II)24, while the whereabouts of the
second are unknown (Fig. 12).25 Of the remaining four forzieri, one, being the most
damaged, is to be found in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich (Fig. 1 3)26,
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op. cit.)
13. The story of Lucretia, Zurich, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum (Photo after G. Freuler,
Manifestatori..., op. cit.)
from research madę both on the anonymous Florentine painter presently referred to as
the Master of Ladislas of Durazzo (Ladislas of Durazzo was the king of Naples in
1390-141 4).21
The Master of Ladislas of Durazzo, to whom are currently attributed morę than 20
works, most of these being cassoni or deschi da parto, worked attheturn of the 14th
and 1 5th centuries (being most probably still active as late as the 1420s); he would
appear to have been the author of at least 7 cassoni depicting the story of Lucretia.22
The earliest of these, carried out in the 1 380s or 1 390s, preserved at one time at
Castello Vincigliata near Florence, and the various episodes are divided by elaborate,
gilt gesso decoration into three compartments which present: the king's son stealing
into Lucretia's cham ber; Lucretia stabbing herself in the presence of a servant and only
two men - almost for certain her husband and father - and the banishing of Tarquin
from Romę (Fig. 10).23 Almost as though intended to avoid any confusion with
identifying the scenes, two of them are provided with inscriptions: Lucrezia and
Roma. Among the subsequent 6 cassoni produced by the same Master, at the turn of
the 1 4th and 1 5th centuries, two portray initial episodes from the story (one of them
belonging to the Czartoryski Collection (Fig. II)24, while the whereabouts of the
second are unknown (Fig. 12).25 Of the remaining four forzieri, one, being the most
damaged, is to be found in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich (Fig. 1 3)26,
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