Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Orlando Furioso, a 16th-century epic poem by Ariosto, is the source of the tale of Roger, a knight whose steed is a hippogriff (a legendary creature half horse and half eagle). While riding near Brittany's coast Roger espies a beautiful woman, Angelica, chained to a rock on the Isle of Tears. She has been abducted and stripped naked by ...
Angelica is a princess in the epic poem Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo. She reappears in the saga's continuation, Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto , and in various later works based on the two original Orlando pieces. [ 1 ]
Roger Freeing Angelica is an oil painting executed in 1873 by Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin.The painting illustrates a scene from Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, in which the Muslim knight Roger (Italian: Ruggiero) saves the pagan princess Angelica from a sea monster.
In Roger Freeing Angelica, the female nude seems merely juxtaposed with the meticulously rendered but inert figure of Roger flying to the rescue on his hippogriff, [98] for Ingres was rarely successful in the depiction of movement and drama. According to Sanford Schwartz, the "historical, mythological, and religious pictures bespeak huge ...
Roger Freeing Angelica may refer to: Roger Freeing Angelica, a painting by Arnold Böcklin; Roger Freeing Angelica, an 1819 painting by Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Roger Freeing Angelica, 1873. He then exhibited the Great Park, one of his earliest works, in which he treated ancient mythology.Of this period are his Nymph and Satyr, Heroic Landscape (Diana Hunting), both of 1858, and Sappho (1859).