# Erminia, Princess of Antioch [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PRETI, Mattia]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 73 cm ## Commentary Erminia, Princess of Antioch c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 98 x 73 cm Private collection This early painting by Preti is notable for its rare literary subject and clear stylistic allusion to Paolo Veronese. The subject of this picture is taken from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata \(1580\). The heroine Erminia inscribed his lover Tancred's name on every tree and branch. The choice of subject matter was doubtless inspired by Pietro da Cortona and Nicolas Poussin, both of whom had painted stories from Tasso in Venetian influenced styles. ## Related artworks - [A Mother Entrusting Her Sons to Christ]() - [Absalom's Feast]() - [Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy]() - [Beheading of St. Catherine]() - [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]() - [Christ in Glory]() - [Concert \(detail\)]() - [Concert]() - [David Playing the Harp before Saul]() - [Decollation of St John \(detail\)]() - [Painting in the choir: Crucifixion of St Andrew]() - [Painting in the choir: Entombment]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()