Rinaldo and Armida

1720-1750 (Baroque)

47.3 cm 37 cm

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This painting, a study for a much larger canvas, illustrates a moment in Jerusalem Delivered, an epic fantasy poem written in 1575 and first published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso. The poem’s action is set during the first crusade (1096–99), when Christians waged war on Muslims a...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; [1881 catalogue: no. 301; 1897 catalogue: no. 784, as François Boucher]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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