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Reclining woman in a crown and red gown lies on a stone pyre above flames, with a sword beside her, in a dark setting.

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Dido on the Pyre, Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (1655), Kunsthistorisches Museum. Via artnap.com

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Johann Heinrich Schönfeld's Dido on the Pyre (1655), held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, shows a woman in a crown reclining on a stone structure above flames. A sword rests beside her, and she wears a red gown with gold trim and a white undergarment, while a gold-embroidered cloth spills from the platform.

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1655

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Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Public domain

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