Dido Building Carthage

E92828

Romantic painting history painting oil painting painting

Dido Building Carthage is a luminous Romantic-era history painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting the legendary founding of Carthage by Queen Dido.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romantic painting → history painting → oil painting → painting →
artist	J. M. W. Turner →
artisticPeriod	Romantic era →
artStyle	Turnerian light effects →
basedOn	Aeneid → legend of Queen Dido →
collection	National Gallery, London →
colorPalette	luminous golden light →
completionDate	1815 →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
creator	J. M. W. Turner →
depicts	Dido → Mediterranean seaport → ancient Carthage → construction of buildings → founding of Carthage → ships in harbor →
exhibitedAt	Royal Academy of Arts →
genre	history painting →
hasPart	classical architecture → figures in ancient dress → harbor scene → rising sun →
hasTheme	civilization → classical antiquity → empire → rise and fall of cities →
imageFormat	landscape orientation →
inception	1815 →
inspiredBy	Claude Lorrain → Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba →
inventoryNumber	NG498 →
languageOfTitle	English →
locatedIn	England → London → United Kingdom →
location	National Gallery, London →
medium	oil on canvas →
movement	Romanticism →
notableWorkOf	J. M. W. Turner →
ownedBy	National Gallery, London →
portrays	Queen Dido →
subject	legendary founding of Carthage →
title	Dido Building Carthage →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
J. M. W. Turner →	notableWork
Dido Building Carthage →	title