The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Angelica and Medoro
c. 1570
(Italian, 1520–1582)
designer
after Teodoro Ghisi
(Italian, 1536–1601)
Sheet: 29.6 x 20.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Lewis&Boorsch 43
Location: not on view
Description
This scene stems from Ludovico Ariosto’s (1474–1533) 16th-century best-seller Orlando Furioso, an epic poem in which Princess Angelica falls in love with Medoro, a soldier she nurses back to health. They are shown here declaring their union by carving their names “on every stone or shady tree.” Like the poet Ariosto, who updated a medieval chivalric story with classical themes, Teodoro and his brother, Giorgio, portrayed the lovers in the popular antique style.- Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017).Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): February 7, 2013 - June 3, 2013.Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1944.20