Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), designed ca. 1689–93, woven 1732–39, Italian, Rome, Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), H. 143 x W. 180 inches (363.2 x 457.2 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, 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 Tasso’s sixteenth-century epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)
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Erminia, Shepherd, set, Scenes, Gerusalemme Liberata, designed ca, 1689–93, woven 1732–39, Italian, Rome, Wool, silk, 16-18 warps, inch, 7, cm, H, 143 x W, 180 inches, 363.2 457.2 cm, Textiles-Tapestries, Commissioned, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, great-nephew, Pope Alexander, VIII, part, massive series, heroic, scale, well, narrative, fifteen tapestries, depicting, romanticized version, Christians, First, Crusade, Jerusalem recounted, Tasso, sixteenth-century, epic, poem, Delivered
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