Portrait medal of Dido, Queen of Carthage (obverse); A View of Carthage (reverse), Alessandro Cesati, ca. 1550

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Portrait medal of Dido, Queen of Carthage (obverse); A View of Carthage (reverse), ca. 1550, Bronze (Copper alloy with light brown, Diam. cm, wt. g., Medals, Alessandro Cesati (Italian, born Cyprus, active 1538–64), This medal belongs to a series depicting famous figures from antiquity. Queen of Carthage in North Africa, Dido is best known as a heroine of the Aeneid, the epic poem written by the Roman poet Virgil in the first century b

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Size: 4453px × 4560px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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