Thursday, November 14, 2013

Roger Freeing Angelica (1819)

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Roger Freeing Angelica

Here Ingres is depicting another in the long line of stories of "damsels in distress" being rescued by the brave and stalwart knight. The story shown here is taken from the Renaissance epic poem "Orlando Innamorata," but has roots in such stories as the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda, and St. George and the Dragon.

Ingres's treatment here seems to stray from his usual Neoclassic approach to a more Romantic one (that's just my impression, completely devoid of any real knowledge of art history).

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