Domenico Fiasella (part of), Rinaldo and Armida

Features

Artist:  Domenico Fiasella (1589-1669) Scope of 

Artwork title:  Rinaldo e Armida

Age:  17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Subject:  Allegorical/Mythological Subject

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Rinaldo e Armida

Oil on canvas. The painting surely in genoa, close to the results of Domenico Fiasella. The scene depicts the episode of the "Jerusalem delivered" (canto XIV,verses 57-68) in which the sorceress Armida, after having drawn the knight Rinaldo to the enchanted island of the Orontes, found him asleep, and, dazzled by her beauty, rather than kill him (as he had designed it for revenge because he had freed the christian knights from her imprisoned), he falls madly in love. In the painting the sorceress is depicted while it cleanses and the sweat from the forehead of the sleeping Rinaldo, under the eyes of Cupid, who has launched its strale, of a putto, which gives her the chain of flowers (privets, roses and lilies,) with which to bind the knight and the nymph with his song he did fall asleep (figure of outline found in the similar work painted by Van dyck in 1628-29); to the left you can see the little boat with which Rinaldo has reached the island, to the right is the chariot, which arrived in the sorceress and in the background a column erected to his palace. The large canvas has been restored and ritelata.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 132
Width: 180