Carlo and Ubaldo see Rinaldo conquered by Love for Armida

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The enchantress Armida and her bewitched lover, Rinaldo, a Christian knight, recline in a beautiful landscape, surrounded by attendant cupids. The scene shows a tender moment between the couple before Rinaldo’s comrades, whose helmets are visible behind the bush on the left, disturb their idyll and compel Rinaldo to return to fighting in the First Crusade (a Christian military campaign to recapture Jerusalem from Islamic rule).

This is an episode from Torquato Tasso’s epic tale of bewitching and love, La Gerusalemme liberate (1581), which was popular during the seventeenth century (an English translation, Jerusalem Delivered, was published in 1600). Another painting of the subject by Van Dyck (thought to be the picture now at the Baltimore Museum of Art) was acquired by King Charles I.

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Title

Carlo and Ubaldo see Rinaldo conquered by Love for Armida

Date

1634-5

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 57 x W 41.5 cm

Accession number

NG877.2

Acquisition method

Bought, 1871

Work type

Painting

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