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Description: Lucretia, the wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, was raped by Sextus, the son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the despised ruler of Rome. After the Subsequent suicide of Lucretia, her husband and her father Brutus raised a revolt which drove the Etruscan overlords, the Tarquins, out of Rome (510 B.C.). 

Another version of the theme occurs in a torso picture and in two drawings in the Prado Madrid. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 313]