# Roger and Angelica [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BÖCKLIN, Arnold]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 44 x 36 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 Modero. Roger \(Ruggiero\) freeing Angelica is a theme very like Perseus and Andromeda. Angelica chained to a rock by the seashore is about to be attacked by a sea-monster, the orc. Roger, one of the pagan champions, arrives riding on a hippogriff \(a monster, the creation of the poets of the late middle ages\). He dazzles the monster with his magic shield, and places a magic ring on Angelica's finger to protect her. He undoes her bonds and they ride off together. Böcklin's painting is a romantic rendering of the Renaissance tale. ## Related artworks - [Attack by Pirates]() - [Campagna Landscape]() - [Castle by the Sea \(Murder in the Castle Garden\)]() - [Island of the Dead \(fifth version\)]() - [Island of the Dead \(first version\)]() - [Island of the Dead \(second version\)]() - [Island of the Dead \(third version\)]() - [Odysseus and Polyphemus]() - [Pan Dancing with Children]() - [Pan in the Reeds]() - [Sleeping Diana Watched by Two Fauns]() - [Summer]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()