#armida

The Rose from Armida's Garden

Artist: Marie Spartali Stillman (British, 1844-1927)

Date: 1894

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Armida Binding the Sleeping Rinaldo with Flowers

Artist: Willem van Mieris (Dutch, 1662-1747)

Date: 1709

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Description

Art dump FINALLY. Will be working on posting more stuff soon.

The first two pics are a lil comic I made with my lovely friend @sketchygatito’s oc, Irkaih (Lil Irkaih ver, to be exact). Basically June but she's an actual fox AU. The third pic is just June and Irkaih's first meeting <3

We also have my other lovely friend @elliee-doodles oc, Armida 💛 (Haven't drawn her in AGES, so it was about time for me to make something with her)

Bernard Picart (or Picard) - Rinaldo and Armida in the Enchanted Garden (1724) The verses in French at the bottom of the engraving read: Séduit par de Magiques Charmes Le vaillant RENAUD s’amollit Et loin du tumulte des Armes Dans le repos s’ensevelit.

Orgueilleuse de sa Conqueste ARMIDE rit et ne voit pas Le Guerrier caché qui s’appreste A l’Enlever d’entre ses bras. Which translates: Seduced by magical charms, The valiant Renaud [=Rinaldo] grows soft, And far from the tumult of arms He buries himself in repose.

Proud of her conquest, Armida laughs and does not see The warrior hidden nearby, preparing To snatch him from her arms. 'The warrior' here refers to the two soldiers of Rinaldo who eventually rescue him from the charms of Armida; we see them hiding in the bushes. To my knowledge, this engraving is one of the earliest in which Armida’s mirror is depicted as flat rather than convex.

The story of the crusader Rinaldo and the sorceress Armida was immensely popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the plot would have been familiar to any literate person of the time, including the role the mirror played in it.

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