id:			438548
accession number:	2021.2
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2023-03-20 10:12:42.435000

Dido, c. 1525. Aurelio Lombardo (Italian, 1501–1563). Marble; overall: 50 x 26.5 x 14 cm (19 11/16 x 10 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2021.2

title:				Dido
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creation date:			c. 1525
creation date earliest:		1520
creation date latest:		1530
current location:		117A Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Italy
technique:	marble
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Aurelio Lombardo (Italian, 1501–1563) 
Italian sculptor, 1501-1563
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measurements: Overall: 50 x 26.5 x 14 cm (19 11/16 x 10 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	PVNICA SVM [DIDO ERE]XI QVAE MOENIA BYRSA
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Long Term Loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September – December 2006)

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, England
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	Henry Duke & Son, Dorchester, England
	date: June 30, 1988
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	Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in association with Daniel Katz, Ltd., London
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	Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937-2013), Princeton, Sobótka, Poland
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	[Christie's Sale: Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, December, 14, 1999, London, lot 74]
	date: December, 14, 1999
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	Hester Diamond (1928-2020), New York, NY
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	[Sotheby's Sale: The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I, January 29, 2021, New York, NY, lot 120]
	date: January 29, 2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
Dido’s nudity and hairstyle are allusions to ancient Greek images of Aphrodite.

digital description:
Artists customarily portrayed Dido as a forlorn lover abandoned by the Trojan hero, Aeneas, but here she is a conquering queen. Dido draws aside an oxhide curtain, a reference to the mythical founding of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia, North Africa), when she was given an oxhide to demarcate granted land. By cutting it into thin strips she was able to encircle the future city. <em>Dido</em> was likely created for display in a <em>studiolo</em>, a place of study featuring refined works of art appreciated by humanist scholars and aficionados during the Renaissance.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Schulz, Anne Markham, and Giammaria Mosca<em>. Giammaria Mosca Called Padovano: A Renaissance Sculptor in Italy and Poland</em>. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
	page number: 	no. 1, p. 61
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	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. <em>European Sculpture</em>. 1999.
	page number: 	lot 74
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	Luchs, A. "The London Woman in Anguish, attributed to Christoforo Solari: Erotic Pathos in a Renaissance Bust," <em>Artibus et Historiae</em> no. 47 (2003).
	page number: 	pp. 158, 159, 163 and 172, fig. 12
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	Lombardo, Antonio, and Matteo Ceriana. <em>Gli Este a Ferrara: il camerino di alabastro : Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica</em>. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2004.
	page number: 	pp. 269 and 271
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	Sarchi, Alessandra. <em>Antonio Lombardo.</em> Venezia: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2008.
	page number: 	p. 372, pl. 162
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	Luchs, Alison, <em>Tullio Lombardo, and Adriana Augusti Ruggeri. Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture. </em>Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2009.
	page number: 	p. 120
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	Kurkow, Cory. “Defiant Dido: Shaking up the Italian Renaissance sculpture collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 34-35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 35; Mentioned: P. 34.
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