Sujet
'Death of the Dido', 1757. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Légende
'Death of the Dido', 1757. After piling a wooden effigy of her deceased husband in their matrimonial bed atop her own funeral pyre, Dido, the queen of Carthage, stabs herself with her lover Aeneas's sword. Virgil tells the story of her grief-stricken reaction to her abandonment by Aeneas, the hero of the Trojan war and future founder of Rome. From the collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Date
1757
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B85_464
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,8Mo) / 44,2cm x 28,3cm / 5224 x 3343 (300dpi)