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This work is part of a wider project, in which different female figure of ancient mythology are depicted (see Ariadne, Medea, Diana and Clytie). According to ancient Greek and Roman sources, Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Her story is beautifully described by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, the “Aeneid”. Here Virgil recalls Dido’s fatal love for Aeneas, which eventually leads her to commit suicide. In this work, my quest was to suggest the contradictory aspects of Dido’s nature. At the beginning, she was a tormented widow, who had vowed to her late husband that she would never love another man. Eventually, she went against her own vow, and Aeneas quickly became her well-known lover. Her feelings for him were deep and wild. He, however, abandoned her and sailed away towards Italy. At that point, she was overwhelmed by anger and decided to kill herself. My work depicts Dido’s last moments. She is embracing the sword Aeneas gave her, as if she were embracing him with passionate tenderness one last time. Her face is still relaxed, however we know that very soon her expression will be completely different. The soft lines of her young body stand out against a white background. The graphite strokes play with the wood grain. Only a few features are underlined by golden enamel and the scene is still and silent. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.
This work is part of a wider project, in which different female figure of ancient mythology are depicted (see Ariadne, Medea, Diana and Clytie). According to ancient Greek and Roman sources, Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Her story is beautifully described by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, the “Aeneid”. Here Virgil recalls Dido’s fatal love for Aeneas, which eventually leads her to commit suicide. In this work, my quest was to suggest the contradictory aspects of Dido’s nature. At the beginning, she was a tormented widow, who had vowed to her late husband that she would never love another man. Eventually, she went against her own vow, and Aeneas quickly became her well-known lover. Her feelings for him were deep and wild. He, however, abandoned her and sailed away towards Italy. At that point, she was overwhelmed by anger and decided to kill herself. My work depicts Dido’s last moments. She is embracing the sword Aeneas gave her, as if she were embracing him with passionate tenderness one last time. Her face is still relaxed, however we know that very soon her expression will be completely different. The soft lines of her young body stand out against a white background. The graphite strokes play with the wood grain. Only a few features are underlined by golden enamel and the scene is still and silent. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.
This work is part of a wider project, in which different female figure of ancient mythology are depicted (see Ariadne, Medea, Diana and Clytie). According to ancient Greek and Roman sources, Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Her story is beautifully described by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, the “Aeneid”. Here Virgil recalls Dido’s fatal love for Aeneas, which eventually leads her to commit suicide. In this work, my quest was to suggest the contradictory aspects of Dido’s nature. At the beginning, she was a tormented widow, who had vowed to her late husband that she would never love another man. Eventually, she went against her own vow, and Aeneas quickly became her well-known lover. Her feelings for him were deep and wild. He, however, abandoned her and sailed away towards Italy. At that point, she was overwhelmed by anger and decided to kill herself. My work depicts Dido’s last moments. She is embracing the sword Aeneas gave her, as if she were embracing him with passionate tenderness one last time. Her face is still relaxed, however we know that very soon her expression will be completely different. The soft lines of her young body stand out against a white background. The graphite strokes play with the wood grain. Only a few features are underlined by golden enamel and the scene is still and silent. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.
This work is part of a wider project, in which different female figure of ancient mythology are depicted (see Ariadne, Medea, Diana and Clytie). According to ancient Greek and Roman sources, Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Her story is beautifully described by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, the “Aeneid”. Here Virgil recalls Dido’s fatal love for Aeneas, which eventually leads her to commit suicide. In this work, my quest was to suggest the contradictory aspects of Dido’s nature. At the beginning, she was a tormented widow, who had vowed to her late husband that she would never love another man. Eventually, she went against her own vow, and Aeneas quickly became her well-known lover. Her feelings for him were deep and wild. He, however, abandoned her and sailed away towards Italy. At that point, she was overwhelmed by anger and decided to kill herself. My work depicts Dido’s last moments. She is embracing the sword Aeneas gave her, as if she were embracing him with passionate tenderness one last time. Her face is still relaxed, however we know that very soon her expression will be completely different. The soft lines of her young body stand out against a white background. The graphite strokes play with the wood grain. Only a few features are underlined by golden enamel and the scene is still and silent. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.
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Ilaria Caputo

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This work is part of a wider project, in which different female figure of ancient mythology are depicted (see Ariadne, Medea, Diana and Clytie). According to ancient Greek and Roman sources, Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Her story is beautifully described by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, the “Aeneid”. Here Virgil recalls Dido’s fatal love for Aeneas, which eventually leads her to commit suicide. In this work, my quest was to suggest the contradictory aspects of Dido’s nature. At the beginning, she was a tormented widow, who had vowed to her late husband that she would never love another man. Eventually, she went against her own vow, and Aeneas quickly became her well-known lover. Her feelings for him were deep and wild. He, however, abandoned her and sailed away towards Italy. At that point, she was overwhelmed by anger and decided to kill herself. My work depicts Dido’s last moments. She is embracing the sword Aeneas gave her, as if she were embracing him with passionate tenderness one last time. Her face is still relaxed, however we know that very soon her expression will be completely different. The soft lines of her young body stand out against a white background. The graphite strokes play with the wood grain. Only a few features are underlined by golden enamel and the scene is still and silent. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.

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Transformation, light and the mixing of old techniques with new materials play a leading role in my recent production. The main link between my works is a quest for harmony, an attempt to describe the inner – and sometimes hidden – elegance of trivial matters. Ethereal female figures inspired by ancient Myths, flowers, fruits, peacocks and other pieces of reality are depicted in my bright figurative style that recalls the great tradition of European painting, especially the analytic approach in describing reality that was typical of both Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites. My strokes are normally clean and the images neat, however I sometimes focus on a specific part of a painting, especially when an unexpected element - such as a Plexiglas layer - is inserted into the composition. In this way, the incredible potentiality of oil painting flourishes through the clear lines of a feature, in opposition to the blurriness of another one. My quest towards the soul of things pushes me often toward portraiture, this wonderful game of mirrors where the individuality of the artist merges into the inner self of the model.

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