Rinaldo and the Mirror-Shield
about 1650–1655
- Medium
- Oil on copper
- Dimensions
- 29.8 × 34 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-130420
In Torquato Tasso's 1581 epic poem *Gerusalemme liberata* (Jerusalem Delivered), the legendary medieval knight Rinaldo is bewitched by the beautiful sorceress Armida and lulled into a life of easy sensuality on the Fortunate Isles. His friends, the knights Carlo and Ubaldo, enter her garden and break her spell by showing Rinaldo a magic mirror-shield. His military spirit reawakened, Rinaldo later rejoins his companions in the enchanted forest.Some seventy years after the famous book was written, the Baroque artist Francesco Maffei applied his expressive brushwork and rich color to enhance the drama of Tasso's Renaissance epic.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1650–1655 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum
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