Iconography

HISTORY

World chronicles / Cycles / Manuscripts / Florentine Picture Chronicle

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 581-583: Aeneas sails away from Carthage
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 642-666: Dido stabs herself with Aeneas's sword / Dido stabs herself, standing or kneeling, with no funeral pyre in sight

Further details

Artist or creator

Baldini, Baccio (c1436-1487) (school) or
Finiguerra, Maso (1426-1464)

Date

1470 - 1475

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings) (inv. 1889,0527.62v (left half), 1889,0527.64r (right half))

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Florentine Picture Chronicle. Folio: 40v-41r.

Find out more

Web resources

British Museum (left half)
British Museum (right half)

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object