Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo Date: 1742/45 Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian, 1696–1770

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Canvas Illustrates Torquato Tasso’s popular sixteenth-century epic romance Jerusalem Delivered, which is set in the eleventh century, during the First Crusade, when Western knights sought to take Jerusalem from the Muslims

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Size: 3000px × 2568px
Photo credit: © Carlo Bollo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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