The Dying Lucretia
by CAMPENY Y ESTANY, Damián, Marble, 35 × 125 × 61 cm
The plaster figure of the ‘Lucrecia moribunda’ dates from 1804, though it was 30 years later that the artist translated it into marble. According to legend, St. Lucretia of M�rida was converted from Islam to Christianity and subsequently persecuted by the Moors, until finally being martyred in 859.