Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) After piling a wooden effigy of her deceased husband in their matrimonial bed atop her own funeral
pyre, Dido, the queen of
Carthage, stabs herself with her lover
Aeneas's sword.
Virgil tells the story of her grief-stricken reaction to her abandonment by Aeneas, the hero of the
Trojan war and future founder of Rome.
The artist emphasized
Dido's ferocious passion through the curvaceous twist of her body; he accentuated the scene's gloom through use of somber colors. The burning torch at the upper right provides the only reference to the funeral pyre.
Peter Paul Rubens's prolific workshop produced over two thousand works of art. Rubens typically employed accomplished artists to paint in his style from sketches he supplied. The posthumous inventory of his goods lists a painting called the
Death of Queen Dido, but scholars are uncertain whether it refers to this particular canvas.
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