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Angelica encountering the wounded Medoro

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610–1662)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Angelica encountering the wounded Medoro

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The wounded Medoro is tended by Angelica, while Cupid ensures she will fall in love with him (Ariosto, 'Orlando Furioso', XIX, 19). A pentimento is visible where the arrow was placed further to the right. The painting may have been made for Mazarin during Romanelli's first visit to France in 1646–1648, although there are arguments for a dating of a decade earlier. It was engraved by Jean Charles Le Vasseur as 'Tancred and Erminia'.

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Title

Angelica encountering the wounded Medoro

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61.6 x W 76.3 cm

Accession number

WA.L.99.16

Acquisition method

Lent by Sir Denis Mahon, C.H., C.B.E., F.B.A., through the Art Fund, 1999

Work type

Painting

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Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

1610–1662

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