YOU4420040: Tarquin and Lucrece, Oil painting on wood by Jan Massys or Metsys or Matsijs (1509-1575), illustrating Sextus Tarquin, son of King Tarquin the Superb and Lucrece, wife of Tarquin Collatin, preferring death to deshonour. Roman exemplum seen as a representation of conjugal virtue in the Renaissance, and often interprets as a crucial event for the passage from Rome from the monarchy to the Republic. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Palais des beaux arts de Lille, Lille, France., Massys, Jan (1509-75) / Bridgeman Images