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| Keywords: Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli - Sulpicia - Walters 37616.jpg Sulpicia was chosen in the 3rd century BC from among a hundred women in Rome as the most worthy to dedicate a statue to the goddess Venus Verticordia protector of women Before an imaginary view of the city of Rome Sulpicia holds a model of the temple of the goddess The painting is one of eight surviving related panels depicting Roman men and women who exemplified virtuous behavior The series was probably made to celebrate the marriage in 1493 of Silvio di Bartolomeo Piccolomini a relative of Pope Pius II and was intended to provide moral examples for the bridal couple The artist's fascination with antiquity is visible not only in the subject matter but also in the classicizing linear gracefulness of the human form and the ornament of the base Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 91 134-138 ca 1493 1495 Renaissance tempera oil panel Painted surface H including strips added on all sides 42 1/2 x W 18 11/16 in 108 x 47 5 cm ; Panel cm 106 7 46 3 2 1 accession number 37 616 178 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 120 as Antonio Pollaiuolo Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription Inscribed on 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; Translation Inscribed on pedastal 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 Renaissance Books and Manuscripts of the Humanist Age The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994-1995 Renaissance Siena Art for a City The National Gallery London 2007-2008 place of origin Siena Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Pietro degli Orioli Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of Rome Females with red dresses in art 15th-century oil on panel paintings in the United States 16th-century women looking at viewer in art Tempera on panel 1490s paintings from Italy 1490s paintings in the United States Rome in the 15th century 1490s dresses Models of temples | ||||
