History:This copy of Guido Reni's Beautiful Parricide was brought back from Europe in 1851 by Randal W. McGavock of Nashville. McGavock was later a Mayor of Nashville and he died during the Civil War where he was serving in the Confederate Army. It was bought November 17, 1851 in Rome, Italy.
Notes:This painting is the subject in Percy B. Shelley's tragedy "The Cenci." For more information see "A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance", ed. J. R. Hale, (NY: Oxford University Press, 1981), 77.
Categories:Portrait paintings; Italian Renaissance; Shelley.
