Keywords: Claude Lorrain - Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago - WGA05017.jpg Artwork Creator Claude Lorrain - 1675 1676 Oil on canvas size cm 120 149 2 Institution Hamburger Kunsthalle object history credit line exhibition history http //www weiter-offen de/spot-on/ Spot on 1 August 2014 bis 17 Januar 2016 Hamburger Kunsthalle en The story of the painting is from Virgil's Aeneid 4 362-392 The lovers Dido and Aeneas passed a whole winter in each other's company until Aeneas was suddenly visited by Mercury the messenger of the gods with sharp orders from Jupiter to be on his way He took his leave amid scenes of passionate pleading vituperation and tears When Aeneas had departed Dido built a funeral pyre in the palace and slew herself on it using her lovers sword The painting is included in Liber Veritatis LV 186 accession number WGA link 5017 http //www wga hu/art/c/claude/3/09aeneas jpg http //www wga hu/html/c/claude/3/09aeneas html PD-old-100 painting mythological French 1651-1700 DEFAULTSORT Claude Lorrain Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago Paintings by Claude Lorrain French paintings in the Hamburger Kunsthalle Aeneid Book 4 Departing in art Dido and Aeneas Mythological paintings in Germany Oil paintings of ports and harbours Spot on Hamburger Kunsthalle 2014-2016 1670s mythological paintings 1670s paintings from France 1670s paintings in Germany 1676 paintings WGA form painting WGA type mythological WGA School French WGA time period 1651-1700 |