Locket with the Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe

ca. 1550 (Renaissance)

4.5 cm 3.8 cm 1.2 cm

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According to the Roman writer Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), these young lovers each committed suicide thinking that the other had died.

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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