Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage

1679 Overall: 411 x 464.5 cm (161 13/16 x 182 7/8 in.) Source image
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Dido loves Aeneas and offers a sacrifice to the gods, specifically Juno, the goddess of marriage, to keep him in Carthage. Priests prepare to cut open the newly slaughtered heifer and read the future in its entrails.

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