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Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Tapestries after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli / Designs and cartoons by Romanelli (Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Tapestries after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli / Scene 2: Dido's Banquet
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 697-756: Aeneas and Amor (disguised as Ascanius) at Dido's feast / with Amor-Ascanius carrying gifts or presented by his father (vv. 695-714)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 697-756: Aeneas and Amor (disguised as Ascanius) at Dido's feast / with Dido embracing Amor-Ascanius (vv. 717-722)

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Preparatory drawing for a tapestry

Artist or creator

Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (1610-1662)

Date

1630 (circa) - 1635

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings) (inv. Ff,3.195)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Ruth Rubinstein, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli's Dido and Aeneas Tapestry Cartoons, Art at Auction (Sotheby's), 1968-1969, pp. 106-119, p. 109, fig. 4

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