Rinaldo and Armida in the Enchanted Garden

Nombre del creador

Jan Soens

Contexto cultural

Flemish; Italian; European

Fecha

Creación: 16th century, 17th century, Renaissance

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

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Predating the lush garden scenes of Rococo paintings, Jan Soens' Rinaldo and Armida in the Enchanted Garden, was painted during the late Renaissance. His subjects are from a 16th century epic poem. Rinaldo is a part of the Christian crusade to capture Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The sorceress Armida, who gazes at her own reflection, disarms him with her beauty. However, the use of beauty to charm a man was deemed immoral on the part of the woman. Thus Rinaldo's contemporaries, hidden in the distance, have come to free him.

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In 1581, the Italian poet Tarquinato Tasso published Gerusaleme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated), an instantly popular epic poem based on one of the crusades by Christians to retake the Holy Land. It was written as a romantic fantasy, recounting Satan's efforts to create obstacles for the heroic Christian knights, particularly the noble Rinaldo. The beautiful sorceress Armida enticed Rinaldo to enter the lush garden of her castle. There she keeps him besotted with sensual pleasures. He holds her "crystal mirror" up to her face but declares that her worth and beauty are more perfectly "painted in my heart."The episode is treated by Soens as a tender moment, but in the poem it is clear that Rinaldo, "drunk with ease," has lost ...

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Rinaldo and Armida in the Enchanted Garden

Creador

Jan Soens (Enlace a la biografía), Painter

Jan Soens, male

Tipo de obra

Painting & Drawing; paintings

Contexto cultural

Flemish; Italian; European

Material

oil on panel

Dimensiones

18 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. (46.3 x 35.9 cm)

Técnica

Oil painting; Painting

Idioma

Fecha

Creación: 16th century, 17th century, Renaissance

Creation: ca. 1581-1611 (Late Renaissance)

Procedencia

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Estilo Período

Mannerism

Derechos

CC0;

GNU Free Documentation License

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Ubicación

Creación: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Southern Europe, Europe

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

Temas

Tema descriptivo: Vanity, Man, Woman, Garden, Bird, Dove, Sword, Knight, Mirror, European people, Crusader, Rinaldo, Armida, Christian, Seduction, Reflection, People;
Nombre de pila: Jerusalem Delivered

Tema

Colaboradores de Curationist

Emily Benoff; Amanda Acosta

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Parte de: Women’s Reflections in European Painting

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Jan Soens, Rinaldo and Armida in the Enchanted Garden, circa 1581-1611. Walters Art Museum. In the 16th century epic, illustrated by Jan Soens, Armida uses her beauty to disarm the crusader, Rinaldo. CC0.

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