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Rinaldo and Armida
Donato Creti (Italian, 1671-1749)
c. 1693
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 15 × 19.1 cm (5 15/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This delightful sheet depicts the story of Rinaldo and Armida as told in the 14th canto of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. Armida is shown holding the dagger at the moment when the sweetness of Rinaldo's face arrests her in her murderous scheme and seduces her to become his lover.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
