Tuccia, in a painting by Francesco Granacci. Tuccia (3rd-century BC [1]), was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. Its supposed by her nomen that she belonged to the Gens Tuccia. She is known for an incident in which her chastity was questioned by a spurious accusation.

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Italian: La Vestale Tuccia) or Veiled Woman (Italian: La Velata) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini, a Venetian Rococo sculptor known for his illusory depictions of female allegorical figures covered with …

The iconography of the veil is associated with the themes of modesty and chastity, which play a prominent part in the story of the Vestal Virgin Tuccia. In ancient Rome, the Vestals were a female sacerdotal order entrusted with the task of keeping the …

The woman holding the sieve represents Tuccia, a renowned Vestal Virgin (a priestess who maintained the eternal fire at the temple of the chaste goddess Vesta in Rome). The woman with a goblet could be Sophonisba, a Carthaginian ruler who drank poison rather than be taken into slavery by the Roman general Scipio Africanus.

Tuccia’s pose is a mirror reproduction of Christ’s pose in the altarpiece Moroni painted of the Trinity for the parish church of of S. Giuliano in Albino in 1555–6. He may have reused the same full-sized drawing, or cartoon, in reverse.

Tuccia, a priestess of the goddess Vesta, was falsely accused of impurity. The artist depicts her defending her honor by performing a remarkable task. In the panel on the right, Tuccia dips her sieve into the Tiber River, and in the center left, she miraculously carries the water-filled sieve—a sign of her virtue—to the other priestesses at ...

The gens Tuccia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned in history, of whom the most famous may be the Vestal Virgin Tuccia, who performed a miracle in order to prove her innocence.

Tuccia, was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. She is known for the case in which her chastity was questioned by a spurious accusation. When the piety of holy men and women was doubted by sceptics,...

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Tuccia was a Vestal Virgin. When her chastity was questioned she proved her innocence by carrying a sieve full of water from the Tiber to the Temple of Vesta. She was celebrated in Pliny's...