Dido

c. 1525 Overall: 50 x 26.5 x 14 cm (19 11/16 x 10 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.) Source image
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Artists customarily portrayed Dido as a forlorn lover abandoned by the Trojan hero, Aeneas, but here she is a conquering queen. Dido draws aside an oxhide curtain, a reference to the mythical founding of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia, North Africa), when she was given an oxh...

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