Dido, Queen of Carthage

ca. 1564-1565 (Renaissance)

24.8 cm 30.3 cm

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Dido, the 9th-century BCE Phoenician princess who became queen of Carthage, is represented as the full-face bust portrait (idealized) of a woman who stoically faces death. As a young woman in Tyre, the Phoenician captial, she was threatened by her brother who had killed her hu...

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28312
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Castle of Gaillon (?). George Robinson Harding, London; William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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