Aeneas Departs from Carthage (Aeneid, Book IV)

A painted enamel plate in bright blues, greens and gold shows a shoreline story. At left, men in a small ship with a red-brown sail head away, while workers in the rocky hillside hammer and carry at a construction site. Two seated women in dark and pale gowns, labeled Dido and Anna, face each other beneath a towered castle.

Look closer: A small label reading DIDO and another reading ANNA name the two seated women.

Artist

Master of the Aeneid

Date

ca. 1530–35

Medium

Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1643 × 1861 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1925