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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
* 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. Dido was likely created for display in a studiolo, 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. 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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