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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 3: Dido's Sacrifice to Juno
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 56-64: Dido sacrifices to Ceres, Phoebus, Bacchus, and especially to Juno

Further details

Preparatory drawing for tapestry

Artist or creator

Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (1610-1662)

Date

1630 (circa) - 1635

Location

London, Courtauld Institute Galleries (inv. D.1952.RW.1710)

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. 111, fig. 7

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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