Casket with Scenes of Dido and Aeneas

1560-1565 (Renaissance)

14.8 cm 8.8 cm

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The stories decorating such small, precious caskets often represent tales of love. In "The Aeneid," the Roman poet Virgil's epic about the wanderings of Aeneas, the survivor of Troy who eventually founds Rome, Aeneas's ship is driven by winds to Carthage on the North African c...

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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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