# Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden, in Baroque and Rococo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in about 1742–45, aged about 46. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> This is the second of four large paintings in a sequence by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicting the crusader Rinaldo and the sorceress Armida. Here Armida has abducted Rinaldo and carried him away to her magical garden. She looks into a magic mirror while the knight sits enthralled, gazing into her eyes.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1742–45
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 186.7 × 259.4 cm (73 1/2 × 102 1/8 in.); Framed: 194.3 × 270.5 × 7.9 cm (76 1/2 × 106 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.699
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-tiepolo), Italian, 1696–1770

Tiepolo was the leading decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, covering ceilings and walls with airy skies, foreshortened figures and luminous colour.

10 works in the collection.

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