Dido doodt zichzelf met dolk naast brandstapel

About this artwork

De figuur van de heilige lijkt stilistisch op de fresco's in de Stanza della Segnatura van Raphael te Rome. De tweede staat is herkenbaar aan de griekse tekst op het bordje aan de voet van de boom.

Art Historical Context

Behold *Dido Doodt Zichzelf met Dolk Naast Brandst* (Dido Kills Herself with a Dagger Beside Funeral Pyre), a poignant engraving by Marcantonioondi, created between 1508 and 1512. This intimate work, measuring just 159 × 125 mm, captures tragic climax from Virgil's *Aeneid*: Queen Dido of Carthage, abandoned by Aeneas, takes her life on a blazing pyre. Raimondi's mastery of the burin brings dramatic tension to the scene, with intricate lines conveying Dido's anguish and the flickering flames. Raimondi, a pioneering Italian engraver of the High Renaissance, was renowned for reproducing designs...

About the Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi · 1475–1534

Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...