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Queen Dido Killing Herself with a Sword; Roman de la Rose, about 1405. Creator: Unknown.

Queen Dido Killing Herself with a Sword; Roman de la Rose, about 1405. Creator: Unknown.

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Queen Dido Killing Herself with a Sword; Roman de la Rose, about 1405. Dido was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage. Heartbroken at being left by her lover Aeneas, Dido ascends the funeral pyre, and falls on a sword that Aeneas had given her.

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Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
People Related
  1. Guillaume de Lorris: French: Author, poet
  2. Jean de Meun: French: Author, translator
Medium
  1. Tempera colours, gold leaf, and ink
Picture Type
  1. Folio
  2. Manuscript
  3. Verso
Category Hierarchy

People Royalty

Locations & Buildings Castles

Society & Culture Art & Literature

Artistic Representations Illuminated Manuscripts

Society & Culture Death & Burial

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3310x4960
File Size : 48,099kb

Aliases

  1. 83.MR.177.84v
  1. Ms. Ludwig XV 7 (83.MR.177), fol. 84v
  1. 1200004137
  1. 3-038-124
  1. 3038124
  1. 83.MR.177.84v

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