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Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage
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About this work
Dido loves Aeneas and offers a sacrifice to the gods, specifically Juno, the goddess of marriage, to keep him in Carthage. Priests prepare to cut open the newly slaughtered heifer and read the future in its entrails.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage, 1679. Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610–1662), Michael Wauters (Flemish, 1679). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 411 x 464.5 cm (161 13/16 x 182 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen, 1915.79.3
