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accession number: 2021.2
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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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inscription: PVNICA SVM [DIDO ERE]XI QVAE MOENIA BYRSA
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Long Term Loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September – December 2006)', 'opening_date': '2006-12-01T00:00:00'}
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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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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Schulz, Anne Markham, and Giammaria Mosca. Giammaria Mosca Called Padovano: A Renaissance Sculptor in Italy and Poland. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
page number: no. 1, p. 61
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Christie, Manson & Woods. European Sculpture. 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," Artibus et Historiae no. 47 (2003).
page number: pp. 158, 159, 163 and 172, fig. 12
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Lombardo, Antonio, and Matteo Ceriana. Gli Este a Ferrara: il camerino di alabastro : Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2004.
page number: pp. 269 and 271
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Sarchi, Alessandra. Antonio Lombardo. Venezia: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2008.
page number: p. 372, pl. 162
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Luchs, Alison, Tullio Lombardo, and Adriana Augusti Ruggeri. Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture. 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.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 34-35.
page number: Reproduced: P. 35; Mentioned: P. 34.
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