Dido and Aeneas
I-Rc Ms2478.14 detail

Proportions

Dido and Aeneas, to scale
60 × 80 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
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Dido and Aeneas

E potesti lasciarmi

Catalogue ID1.20
Artist Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661); Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660)
Object type drawing · initial: Vignette - allusive
Date1652
PlaceRome
Collection Biblioteca Casanatense (Rome)
Inv. no.I-Rc Ms2478.14
Tech. / supportbrown ink, paper, pen
Measures60 × 80 mm
Subject25H11 — mountains
25I12 — prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
47I221 — herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
98B(DIDO) — male persons from classical history (DIDO)

This scene may represent the legendary Queen Dido and Aeneas kneeling in front of the queen.

Cantata
E potesti lasciarmi
Composer
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini (1614-1691)
Manuscript
Casanatense cantata album — I-Rc Ms2478
CLORI
https://cantataitaliana.it/scheda/783

Bianco, Anna. Images for the Music: Drawings and secular cantatas. Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 2025

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023. (nr. 14)

Biblioteca Casanatense — nowadays current