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Master of the Aeneid: The Suicide of Dido   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Master of the Aeneid  (fl. 1530)  wikidata:Q18587838
 
Alternative names
Master of the Aeneid Legend
Description French enamel painter
Work period 1530
Work location
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artist QS:P170,Q18587838
Title
The Suicide of Dido
Description
English: This plaque is part of a series whose designs were based upon the woodcut illustrations of an edition of Virgil, "Opera," edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg, September 9, 1502 (50th illustration, fol. 228). The same cuts appeared in an edition issued at Lyons in 1517 by Sacon. The plaque depicts a scene from the "Aeneid," (IV, vv. 663-695). Dido stabs herself with Aeneas' sword as she stands atop a flight of four steps near a funeral pyre on which are already burning "the Trojan garb and the familiar bed." The garments of Aeneas have been curiously rendered as the prostrate body of the hero himself. A throng of Carthaginians rushes to the scene and Anna calls upon her dying sister. Iris is sent by Juno to release Dido's "struggling soul from the imprisoning limbs."
Date between circa 1530 and circa 1540
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium painted enamel on silvered copper
Dimensions height: 22.4 cm (8.8 in); width: 20.1 cm (7.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,22.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
44.206
Place of creation Limoges, France
Object history
  • Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Prince of San Donato Sale, Paris, March 17, 1870, part II, lot 459
  • Jacques Seligmann, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
    [Emil Rey as agent]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history A Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993. Carthage: l'histoire, sa trace et son écho. Musée du Petit Palais, Genève. 1995. A Renaissance Gem Revealed: Petrarch's Triumphs Disbound. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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