Beatrice Cenci - Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee State Museum

Record No:	85.52
Subject:	Cenci, Beatrice
Artist:	Unknown
Date:	Mazzioni, Signor
Media:	Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:	Frame 31.75 X 26.75
Location:	TN State Museum 505 Deadrick Street. Nashville, TN 37243 Web Contact: TN State Museum

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.