# Tancred Baptizing Clorinda [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROBUSTI, Domenico]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 168 x 115 cm ## Commentary Tancred Baptizing Clorinda c. 1585 Oil on canvas, 168 x 115 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston This work is regarded as one of the best artistic renderings of the crusader epic Gerusalemme Liberata \("Jerusalem Liberated"\) by Torquato Tasso \(1544-1595\). With great fidelity to detail, Domenico shows the Christian knight Tancred \(d. 1112 in Antioch\) baptizing his mortally wounded opponent at that opponent's own wish, after a nocturnal duel. When Tancred opens the helmet he recognizes the Saracen woman warrior Clorinda, with whom he fell in love when he met her by chance at a shady spring after a battle. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation and Three Avogadri]() - [Battle of Salvore \(detail\)]() - [Battle of Salvore \(detail\)]() - [Battle of Salvore \(detail\)]() - [Battle of Salvore]() - [Madonna Interceding with Christ for the Cessation of the Plague]() - [Penitent Magdalene]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Nobleman with his Son]() - [Portrait of a Young Nobleman]() - [Portrait of Doge Giovanni Bembo]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()