# Ruggiero and Angelica

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## Artwork

- Artist: [KRAFFT, Johann Peter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on wood, 134 x 103 cm

## Commentary

This painting represents a scene from Ariosto&#39;s Orlando Furioso. The scene of freeing Angelica is based to a large extent on Old Master compositions for Perseus and Andromeda and is painted in a style emulating Raphael&#39;s.

## Related artworks

- [Equestrian Portrait of Franz I](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/equestrian-portrait-of-franz-i-raad15cc39bfb3f>)
- [Faust on Easter Morning](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/faust-on-easter-morning-rd7904cb7b2184c>)
- [Franz Xaver Richter von Binnenthal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/franz-xaver-richter-von-binnenthal-r2e11d9421d4e32>)
- [Maria Angelica Richter von Binnenthal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/maria-angelica-richter-von-binnenthal-rc4403dd67ba084>)
- [Portrait of Count Ferenc Barkóczy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/portrait-of-count-ferenc-barkczy-re5c0ccf3f5c42f>)
- [The Attack of Zrinyi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/krafft-johann-peter-r09d8b4d45230f6/the-attack-of-zrinyi-r421cf8ba55d21e>)

## Attribution

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