Oil on canvas, 112cm by 84cm. A replica of a painting in the Louvre, Paris.
The story of Armida and Rinaldo is told in Torquato Tasso’s epic 16th Century poem of the Crusades, ‘Gerusalemme Liberata’. Armida, a Saracen sorceress is sent to murder Rinaldo, a brave Crusader, but falls in love with him and creates an enchanted garden to keep him captive.
