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Follow the magician’s pointing stick to the shield he holds up, then find the blue cloak and plumed helmet lying on the ground at the lower right.
In the last scene the boat has set Rinaldo down on the coast of Palestine, where the magician of Ascalon uses the knight’s own shield to show him his forebears’ great deeds. Rinaldo’s choice of duty over love would have set a good example for the family who commissioned the paintings. The collector James Deering, who owned all four from 1913, left them to the Art Institute in 1925.
Oil on canvas · 182.9 × 188 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque · Rococo
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- Museum title
- Rinaldo and the Magus of Ascalon
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
- Date
- c. 1742–45
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 182.9 × 188 cm (72 × 74 in.); Framed: 194 × 190.2 × 7.6 cm (76 3/8 × 74 7/8 × 3 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.