Art Resource - AR928711

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'The Death of Dido', 1757-1760. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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'Death of the Dido', 1757. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

'Death of the Dido', 1757. After piling a wooden effigy of her deceased husband in their matrimonial bed atop her own funeral pyre, Dido, the queen of Carthage, stabs herself with her lover Aeneas's sword. Virgil tells the story of her grief-stricken reaction to her abandonment by Aeneas, the hero of the Trojan war and future founder of Rome. From the collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.

Unique Identifier AR928711

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 5224px × 3343px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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