
Dido and Aeneas (Verkolye)
Nicolas Verkolye, early 18th century
Nicolas Verkolye painted Dido and Aeneas in the early eighteenth century. In Virgil's Aeneid, the Trojan prince Aeneas, the ancestor of the Romans, lands at Carthage and falls in love with its queen Dido. Verkolye was a Dutch painter, and the painting is in the J. Paul Getty Museum.





