Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo

Museum record 16488: Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. A verified entry point for discovery.

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This painting likely once graced a large hall at the Palazzo Corner in Venice along with several others. The suite illustrates the ill-fated love of Armida and Rinaldo from Torquato Tasso’s 1581 epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). The story takes place during the First Crusade, an eleventh-century military expedition in which Christian knights attempted to seize control of Jerusalem and check the power of the Muslims who ruled the city. In this scene, the beautiful sorceress Armida enco…