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    "localId": "95188",
    "label": "Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage",
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    "id": "95188",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "1679",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.3",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 411 x 464.5 cm (161 13/16 x 182 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Belgium, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.79.3"
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    "tec": "tapestry weave: silk and wool",
    "tombstone": "Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage, 1679. Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610–1662), Michael Wauters (Flemish, 1679). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 411 x 464.5 cm (161 13/16 x 182 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen, 1915.79.3",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed lower right:  M. Wavters; signature lower left:  J. F. Romanellus."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1915.81"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This tapestry is one from a series of eight that depicts the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas. They were 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": "Christman, Bruce, \"Threads of History\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 38 no. 10, December 1998",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-10/page/8"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.3",
    "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 05:05:29.759000",
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