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27 Artists embedded with the First Crusade, Jerusalem Delivered, with footnotes # 36

Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem.

GG Barbelli (or Barbello), Crema painter (1590-1650). The composition is part of the frescoes of the Palazzo Moroni in Bergamo

Giovanni…