The Companions of Rinaldo by Nicolas Poussin, oil on canvas,

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Poussin illustrates an episode from Torquato Tasso’s (1544–1595) heroic crusader poem Jerusalem Delivered (1580), in which the Christian knights Carlo and Ubaldo confront a dragon in their attempt to rescue Rinaldo from a pagan sorceress

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Photo credit: © IanDagnall Computing / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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