# Angelica and Medoro [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA HYRE, Laurent de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 141 x 141 cm ## Commentary Angelica is the daughter of a king of Cathay in Orlando Furioso, by the Italian poet Ariosto \(1474-1533\), a romantic epic poem about the conflict between Christians and Saracens at the time of Charlemagne. Angelica was loved by several knights, Christian and pagan, among them the Christian hero Orlando \(Roland\). He was maddened \(furioso\) with grief and jealousy because she became the lover of, and eventually married, the Moor Medoro. The scene depicted here \(Canto 19:36\) shows the two lovers carving their intertwined names on trees and rocks throughout the forest. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Sacrificing Isaac]() - [Allegory of Arithmetic]() - [Allegory of Astronomy]() - [Allegory of Geometry]() - [Allegory of Geometry]() - [Allegory of Grammar]() - [Allegory of Grammar]() - [Allegory of Music]() - [Allegory of the Regency]() - [Angelica and Medoro \(detail\)]() - [Christ The Judge]() - [Cornelia Refusses the Crown of the Ptolomai]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()