id: 438548 accession number: 2021.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.2 updated: 2025-02-28 12:24:43.081000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: marble department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Aurelio Lombardo (Italian, 1501–1563) Italian sculptor, 1501-1563 --- measurements: Overall: 50 x 26.5 x 14 cm (19 11/16 x 10 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: PVNICA SVM [DIDO ERE]XI QVAE MOENIA BYRSA translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Long Term Loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September – December 2006)', 'opening_date': '2006-12-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Private Collection, England date: footnotes: citations: Henry Duke & Son, Dorchester, England date: June 30, 1988 footnotes: citations: Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in association with Daniel Katz, Ltd., London date: footnotes: citations: Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937-2013), Princeton, Sobótka, Poland date: footnotes: citations: [Christie's Sale: Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, December, 14, 1999, London, lot 74] date: December, 14, 1999 footnotes: citations: Hester Diamond (1928-2020), New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: [Sotheby's Sale: The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I, January 29, 2021, New York, NY, lot 120] date: January 29, 2021 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2021- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: Christie, Manson & Woods. European Sculpture. 1999. page number: lot 74 url: 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 url: 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 url: Sarchi, Alessandra. Antonio Lombardo. Venezia: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2008. page number: p. 372, pl. 162 url: 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 url: 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. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.2/2021.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.2/2021.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.2/2021.2_full.tif