# Bireno and Olimpia [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TACCA, Ferdinando]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Bronze, traces of red-gold lacquer, 38 x 40 cm ## Commentary The subject is taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Olimpia, a princess of Holland, had been deserted by her lover, Bireno, during the night. Finding him gone, she ran to the shore, saw that his ship had sailed, and returned to throw herself on the bed. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo]() - [Christ Bearing the Cross]() - [Fontana del Bacchino \(detail\)]() - [Fontana del Bacchino]() - [Fontana del Bacchino]() - [Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar]() - [Infant angel with candelabra]() - [Infant angel with candelabra]() - [Putto Holding Shield to His Left]() - [Putto Holding Shield to His Right]() - [Standing Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()