Sulpicia
Title
Sulpicia
Creator
Pietro Orioli
Publisher
Piccolomini family
Date
c.1493
Contributor
Dr. Adam Rudolphi
Rights
Baltimore: Walters Art Museum
Format
painting
Language
On the framed placard on the front side of the figure's pedestal:
SVLPITIA / QUAE FACERE VENERI TEMPLVM CASTAE Q PROBAEQ / SVLPITIA EX TOTA SVM MERITA VRBE LEGI / ARA PVDICITIAE PECTVS SIBI QVODQ PVDICUM EST / TERREA CVNCTA RVVT FAMA DECVSQ MANET
("I am Sulpicia, who from the whole city was deservedly selected to build the temple to the chaste and virtuous Venus. Whatever breast is chaste in itself is an altar of chastity. All earthly things come to ruin but fame and honor remain.")
SVLPITIA / QUAE FACERE VENERI TEMPLVM CASTAE Q PROBAEQ / SVLPITIA EX TOTA SVM MERITA VRBE LEGI / ARA PVDICITIAE PECTVS SIBI QVODQ PVDICUM EST / TERREA CVNCTA RVVT FAMA DECVSQ MANET
("I am Sulpicia, who from the whole city was deservedly selected to build the temple to the chaste and virtuous Venus. Whatever breast is chaste in itself is an altar of chastity. All earthly things come to ruin but fame and honor remain.")
Type
Still Image
Original Format
tempera and oil on panel
Physical Dimensions
108 x 47.5 cm
Files
Citation
Pietro Orioli, “Sulpicia,” Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art, accessed February 22, 2025, http://othersinearlymodernitaly.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/316.