# Tancred and Erminia [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TURCHI, Alessandro]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 99 x 133 cm ## Commentary Tancred and Erminia c. 1630 Oil on canvas, 99 x 133 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest This painting was formerly in the Royal Castle, Budapest. According to Torquato Tasso's account in Gerusalemme Liberata \(canto XIX, 104-14\), Tancred, after being wounded by Argante during the siege of Jerusalem, is helped by Vafrino. On removing Tancred's armor and discovering his wounds, he tells Erminia. Erminia tends her lover's bloody wounds with the braided tresses of her own hair. The depiction of the subject was influenced by two famous Christian themes: The Lament over the Dead Christ and St Sebastian Tended by Pious Women. ## Related artworks - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Bellona with Romulus and Remus]() - [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]() - [Christ at the Column]() - [David with the Head of Goliath]() - [Lamentation over the Body of Christ]() - [Return of the Prodigal Son]() - [The Lamentation over the Dead Christ]() - [The Raising of Lazarus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()