Dido Sacrifices to Juno, the Goddess of Marriage (Q60780831)

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artist: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Q2983846) Michel Wauters (Q78571328)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used: silk (Q37681) wool (Q42329)
fabrication method: tapestry weaving (Q29167534)
part of: Dido and Aeneas (1915.79) (Q60781281)
instance of: tapestry (Q184296)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.3

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: 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.

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