Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata) designed ca. 1689-93, woven 1732-39 Designed by Domenico Paradisi Italian Commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a great-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII, this was part of a massive series, heroic in scale as well as narrative, of fifteen tapestries depicting the romanticized version of the Christians First Crusade into Jerusalem recounted in Tassos sixteenth-century epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). In a gentle illusionistic interplay of spatial projection and recession, double-headed eagles (alluding to the Ottoboni arms), settle on the imposing sculptural surround to a landscape scene in which the Turkish princess, Erminia, fleeing from Christian soldiers, seeks shelter with a shepherd and his family.. Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata) 212627

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Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata) designed ca. 1689-93, woven 1732-39 Designed by Domenico Paradisi Italian Commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a great-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII, this was part of a massive series, heroic in scale as well as narrative, of fifteen tapestries depicting the romanticized version of the Christians First Crusade into Jerusalem recounted in Tassos sixteenth-century epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). In a gentle illusionistic interplay of spatial projection and recession, double-headed eagles (alluding to the Ottoboni arms), settle on the imposing sculptural surround to a landscape scene in which the Turkish princess, Erminia, fleeing from Christian soldiers, seeks shelter with a shepherd and his family.. Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata) 212627

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