Dido, Queen of Carthage

Bacchus Transforming into Trees the Thracian Women Who Murdered Orpheus (and detail) by Battista Dossi, a modello for one of the tapestries of the Metamorphoses for which Dossi was paid in 1545

Italian, c. 1545

pen and ink with white and grey wash on paper

Royal Collection Trust

Venus and Cupid by Battista de Luteri, called Battista Dossi

Italian (made in Ferrara), c. 1540

oil on canvas

Philadelphia Museum of Art