File:Master of the Aeneid Legend - The Suicide of Dido - Walters 44206.jpg
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Master of the Aeneid: The Suicide of Dido
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The Suicide of Dido |
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| Description |
English: This plaque is part of a series whose designs were based upon the woodcut illustrations of an edition of Virgil, "Opera," edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg, September 9, 1502 (50th illustration, fol. 228). The same cuts appeared in an edition issued at Lyons in 1517 by Sacon.
The plaque depicts a scene from the "Aeneid," (IV, vv. 663-695). Dido stabs herself with Aeneas' sword as she stands atop a flight of four steps near a funeral pyre on which are already burning "the Trojan garb and the familiar bed." The garments of Aeneas have been curiously rendered as the prostrate body of the hero himself. A throng of Carthaginians rushes to the scene and Anna calls upon her dying sister. Iris is sent by Juno to release Dido's "struggling soul from the imprisoning limbs." |
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| Date | between circa 1530 and circa 1540 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | painted enamel on silvered copper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 22.4 cm (8.8 in); width: 20.1 cm (7.9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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44.206 |
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| Place of creation | Limoges, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | A Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993. Carthage: l'histoire, sa trace et son écho. Musée du Petit Palais, Genève. 1995. A Renaissance Gem Revealed: Petrarch's Triumphs Disbound. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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