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This painting shows Rinaldo, a Christian knight who has been enchanted by the Saracen sorceress Armida. He turns away from his own reflection in a magic shield that has been given to him by one of his companions to break the spell. Rinaldo will soon renounce his love for Armida and make his escape. The scene is taken from an episode in Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, a sixteenth-century epic poem about the First Crusade, a Christian military campaign to recapture Jerusalem from Islamic rule. Rinaldo’s costume and armour are inspired by the Classical world: the scallop shell at his waist was, in antiquity, the attribute of Venus, the goddess of love. Painted during the 1740s, at the height of Tiepolo’s career, this is one of four pictures in a series that once decorated a room in the Palazzo Cornaro on the Campo San Polo, Venice.
Title
Rinaldo turning in Shame from the Magic Shield
Date
about 1757
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 161.3 x W 53.5 cm
Accession number
NG6303
Acquisition method
Bought, 1960
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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