Dido, Queen of Carthage

Art, History, Literature, and the Ancient World 

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The tomb of Plautius Lucanus near the Ponte Lucano by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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Vue du Panthéon, Rome by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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Arch of Constantine by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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The Grotto of Posillipo by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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The Colosseum by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Atalanta, 1895, pen and black ink with black wash on paper, British Museum. An illustration to the Algernon Charles Swinburne poem "Atalanta in Corydon", it was originally intended to appear in volume V of The Yellow Book.

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Gold medallions with solidi of Justinian I (top and bottom coins) and Justinus II (middle coin). Byzantine, 6th century A.D. Freer Gallery of Art. 

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Gold medallion (8 aureii) with bust of emperor Claudius II Gothicus (obverse) and figure of Concordia holding standards (reverse)

Roman (minted at Mediolanum), Imperial Period, c. A.D. 268

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Denarius with a portrait of Plautilla, wife of the emperor Caracalla

Roman, A.D. 202-205

silver

Getty Museum

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Interior of the Arch of Titus by Robert Macpherson. Scottish, 1850s. Albumen silver print. Getty Museum. 

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The Arch of Titus by Robert Macpherson. Scottish, 1850s. Albumen silver print. J. Paul Getty Museum. 

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Arch of Constantine by Robert Macpherson. Scottish, 1850s. Albumen silver print. J. Paul Getty Museum. 

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The Colosseum, Rome by Robert Macpherson. Scottish, 1850s. Albumen silver print. J. Paul Getty Museum. 

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Bracelet, necklace, cruciform brooch, and oval brooch from a ruby parure with cameos of mythological and Biblical scenes 

Italian, 16th to 17th century (cameos) and early to mid-19th century (settings)

onyx, gold, and foiled Burmese rubies

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by Queen Mary in 1932)

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Gold ring with an onyx cameo of Jupiter riding an eagle (top) and gold ring with an onyx cameo of Neptune standing on a shell drawn by horses (bottom)

English, 16th century and 18th century

Royal Collection Trust x x 

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Temple de Jupiter a Egine [Temple of Aphaea at Aegina]. Attributed to Baron Paul des Granges. French, 1860-1869. Albumen silver print. J. Paul Getty Museum. 

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“Eastern Portico of the Parthenon” by William J. Stillman

1869

carbon print

Getty Museum