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Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Tapestries after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli / Series Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (lost)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Tapestries after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli / Scene 4: Dido shows Aeneas a plan of Carthage
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 74-76: Dido shows Aeneas the building works of Carthage but is so overwhelmed by his presence that she cannot speak

Further details

Artist or creator

Wauters, Michel (died 1679) after
Romanelli, Gaspare (active in the 1550s)

Date

17th century (middle)

Location

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (On loan to Hitler's Reichskanzlei, lost in 1945)

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. 118

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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