Didon délimite Carthage avec une lanière de bœuf ; à l’intérieur, Didon et Enée · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Didon délimite Carthage avec une lanière de bœuf ; à l’intérieur, Didon et Enée
Subject: Ox Hide; Suicide; Dido; Aeneas
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Carthage
Description: Dido purchased a piece of land on which she would create Carthage by making a deal that the size would be only as large as the area that an ox hide could cover. She was very smart, and cut the hide into thin strips, creating a much larger property than the sellers expected. The hide is represented in the image as the brown circle encompassing the people and the buildings. In the window of the palace, Dido prepares to commit suicide in front of Aeneas. Onlookers watch in despair, seeing what she is about to do.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20022
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20022_OBJ.png