Claudia Quinta
Title
Claudia Quinta
Creator
Neroccio de' Landi
Publisher
Piccolomini family
Date
c.1490/95
Contributor
Dr. Adam Rudolphi
Rights
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
Format
painting
Language
lower center on the tablet of the pedestal: CLAVDIA CASTA FVI NEC VVLGVS CREDIDIT AMEN / ET TAMEN ID QVOD ERAM TESTIS MIHI PRORA PROBAVIT / CONSILIVM ET VIRTVS SVPERANT MATERQVE DEORVM / ALMA PLACET POPVLO ET PER ME HVNC ORATA TVETVR (I was Claudia the chaste, but men trusted not in my troth. And yet that which I was, the prow proved as my witness. Prudence and virtue triumph, and the Mother of the Gods [Cybele], she, the gracious one, is pleasing to the people and protects them when invoked through me)
Type
Still Image
Original Format
tempera on panel
Physical Dimensions
105 x 46 cm
Files
Citation
Neroccio de' Landi, “Claudia Quinta,” Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art, accessed February 22, 2025, http://othersinearlymodernitaly.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/252.