Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Rinaldo under Armida’s Spell
c. 1750-1755
Scroll
- Artist: Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo
- Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Rinaldo under Armida’s Spell
c. 1750-1755
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 384 x 483 mm. (15 1/8 x 19 in.)
Plate: 273 x 342 mm. (10 3/4 x 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Women's Committee
Object Number
1986.114
The etchings of brothers Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (nearby) are after two large-scale canvases by their father, which were part of a series of twelve paintings created in the early 1740s to decorate the reception hall of a private palace in Venice. This work drew inspiration from an episode in Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, a sixteenth-century epic poem about the first Crusade. Domenico’s etching shows the moment when the sorceress Armida first encounters the sleeping knight Rinaldo. Subsequently Armida kidnaps Rinaldo and brings him to her magical kingdom. Lorenzo depicts the amorous couple in Armida’s garden; Rinaldo gazes at his reflection in Armida’s eyes, while Armida is bewitched by her reflection in the upheld mirror.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "75 Years/75 Prints: Masterpieces from the Museum's Collection, 1914-1989," 1 April - 4 June, 1989.
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Jacobs Rotation, March 30 - August 15, 2007
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Jacobs Rotation, March 30 - August 15, 2007
Inscribed: In plate, at upper right: "14"; in plate, at bottom center: "Joannes Bapta Tiepolo inv. et pinx. / Laurentius Filius del. et fecit."
Markings: WM: at center: moon?
