Oil on canvas, 112cm by 84cm.
A replica of a painting in the Louvre, Paris.
The story of Rinaldo and Armida is told in Torquato Tasso’s epic poem of the Crusades, ‘Gerusalemme Liberata’, written in the 16th Century.
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.
