Rinaldo and Armida – (François Boucher) Previous Next


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Style: Rococo

Topic: Love

Technique: Oil

Rinaldo and Armida (1734) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. The subject was inspired by the 16th-century epic poem 'Gerusalemme Liberata' (Jerusalem Delivered) by Torquato Tasso (1544-95). Rinaldo and Armida are a pair of lovers in the poem which is an idealized account of the first Crusade which ended with the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 and the establishment of a Christian kingdom. This painting (135.5 x 170.5 cm) is Now in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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