# Penelope

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 84 x 48 cm

## Commentary

With three other paintings, this panel makes up an ideal gallery of virtuous women from ancient times. They were originally in the Ospedale in Siena.

## Related artworks

- [Birth of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/birth-of-the-virgin-r437bb2603be443>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-r87e74ec391e9a5>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-rd913e2b9404f88>)
- [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/head-of-a-youth-seen-in-profile-r72e9e74f77eaaa>)
- [Hermathena](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/hermathena-r08db23078351e5>)
- [Judgment of Zaleukos](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/judgment-of-zaleukos-rcdbd14ad366537>)
- [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/madonna-with-the-infant-christ-and-st-john-the-baptist-rdc6f580a4396fb>)
- [Moses and the Golden Calf](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/moses-and-the-golden-calf-rdedcf7dd4453e2>)
- [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/mystical-marriage-of-st-catherine-rcb8f09891e20ac>)
- [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/scipio-appeals-to-the-honour-of-his-soldiers-r1ec121b33f682c>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/st-jerome-r0f07fdf3059855>)
- [St Lucy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/st-lucy-ra2110c0365d618>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)