Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), designed ca. 1689–93, woven 1732–39

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Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), designed ca. 1689–93, woven 1732–39, Italian, Rome, Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), H. 143 x W. 180 inches ( x cm), Textiles-Tapestries, Commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a great-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII, this was part of a massive series, heroic in scale as well as narrative, of fifteen tapestries depicting the romanticized version of the Christians’ First Crusade into Jerusalem recounted in Tasso’s sixteenth-century epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered

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