# Rinaldo's Farewell to Armida [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LANFRANCO, Giovanni]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 178 cm ## Commentary The painting illustrates an episode from canto XVI \(stanzas 60-63\) of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. The artist's focus is on the defining moment of pathos as Rinaldo takes his final leave of Armida, with the hero caught between guilt for abandoning the unconscious Armida and the pressing need to follow his destiny, placed in the hands of Fortune, who is depicted holding the tiller. The painting is signed and dated on the hull of the ship: "IOA.S LANFRANCUS PARM/1614." There is a second, slightly smaller version of this theme by Lanfranco in an Italian private collection. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 8 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/handel\_rinaldo.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>George Frideric Handel: Two arias, Rinaldo, Acts II and III</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Angelica and Medoro]() - [Christ Ascending]() - [Christ Served by Angels]() - [Coronation of the Virgin with St Augustine and St William of Aquitaine]() - [Crossing cupola paintings]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Cupola vault \(detail\)]() - [Cupola vault]() - [Design for vault frescoes]() - [Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona]() - [Hagar in the Wilderness]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()