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Spot the two helmeted knights peering over the garden wall at the right, then look back at the shield and sword lying unused on the ground.
In the second scene Armida has carried Rinaldo away to her enchanted garden, where he stares at her, spellbound, while she studies herself in a magic mirror. His sword and shield lie cast aside. At the garden gate on the right his companions Carlo and Ubaldo have arrived to call him back to the crusade.
Oil on canvas · 186.7 × 259.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque · Rococo
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- Museum title
- Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
- Date
- c. 1742–45
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 186.7 × 259.4 cm (73 1/2 × 102 1/8 in.); Framed: 194.3 × 270.5 × 7.9 cm (76 1/2 × 106 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of James Deering
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.