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    "localId": "95193",
    "label": "The Death of Dido",
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    "id": "95193",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "The Death of Dido",
    "description": "Driven by despair, and to her sister's dismay, Dido throws herself onto a pyre of Aeneas's bed and clothes and pierces herself with his sword. Moved by pity, Jupiter's wife, Juno, sends Iris from heaven to cut a lock of Dido's hair and sacrifice it to the underworld so that Dido may die. Aeneas's fleet sails away in the distance.",
    "date": "1679",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.8",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 414 x 466.5 cm (163 x 183 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "tapestry weave: silk and wool",
    "tombstone": "The Death of Dido, 1679. Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610–1662), Michael Wauters (Flemish, 1679). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 414 x 466.5 cm (163 x 183 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen, 1915.79.8",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed lower right:  M. Wavters."
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    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
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    "didYouKnow": "Depicting the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, this tapestry is one of eight gifted to the museum for display in the armor court.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "W. M. M. \"Gothic Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 4 (1919): 67-70.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 70",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136280"
        },
        {
            "citation": "BREMER-DAVID, CHARISSA. \"French &amp; Company and American Collections of Tapestries, 1907-1959.\" <em>Studies in the Decorative Arts</em> 11, no. 1 (2003): 38-68.",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/40663064"
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    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen",
    "galleryDonorText": "Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Armor Court",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:05:32.768000",
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