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Beatrice Cenci

Italian noblewoman and murderer

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Images featuring Beatrice Cenci

7 images from works
  • Lucrezia Cenci and  Beatrice Cenci are beheaded in Rome: an executioner holds up the head of Beatrice, whose brother faints at the sight. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Count Cenci, drugged in his bedroom, is being murdered by Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani; Beatrice is watching the scene while her stepmother is guarding the door. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother Lucrezia are throwing the body of the Count over the balcony. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother are being driven away in a cart to be executed; on the right, Guido Reni is sketching a portrait of Beatrice. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother Lucrezia incite Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani to kill Count Francesco Cenci, who is sleeping in the next room. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Beatrice Cenci, her stepmother Lucrezia, and one of her father's assassins are imprisoned and questioned by the papal authorities; Beatrice is tortured, and Lucrezia tries to persuade her to confess to the murder. Etching, ca. 1850.

Works from the collections

8 works

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    • Online

    Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother are being driven away in a cart to be executed; on the right, Guido Reni is sketching a portrait of Beatrice. Etching, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 568704i
    • Pictures

    Album of the plates depicting the final events of the life of Beatrice Cenci. Etchings, ca. 1850.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 568681i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 568703i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother Lucrezia incite Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani to kill Count Francesco Cenci, who is sleeping in the next room. Etching, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 568685i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Count Cenci, drugged in his bedroom, is being murdered by Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani; Beatrice is watching the scene while her stepmother is guarding the door. Etching, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 568687i

Related topics

Rome
Manslaughter

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