His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

He had also sent back some of his own works, including a portrait ( 1623 ) of himself with Endymion Porter, one of Charles's agents, a mythology ( Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, now in the Baltimore Museum of Art ), and a religious work for the Queen.

Rinaldo and Armida, François Boucher's morceau de réception, gained his admission to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture | Académie royale in 1734.

* Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo

* Rinaldo in Armida by Josef Mysliveček ( Milan, 1780 )

* Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1780 )

Even in a more intimate scene such as Rinaldo & Armida, instead of depicting the focused scene between two lovers, love itself has to be allegorized as an intruding, hovering cupid.

Rinaldo and Armida, by Francois Boucher, 1734 ; this painting gained Boucher entrance to the Academie ( Louvre Museum )

), Luísa gave her first concert, performing Giuseppe Sarti's Armida and Rinaldo.

In addition, Farnese commissioned various oil paintings from Carracci, including his Rinaldo and Armida now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

Rinaldo and Armida, by François Boucher.

Armida tries to kill the greatest Christian knight Rinaldo ( his name appears in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso ( III, 30 ); he is the son of Bertoldo and was the reputed founder of the house of Este ) but she falls in love with him instead and takes him away to a magical island where he becomes infatuated with her caresses and grows idle.

Two Christian knights seek out the hidden fortress, brave the dangers that guard it and, by giving Rinaldo a mirror of diamond, force him to see himself in his effeminated and amorous state and to return to the war, leaving Armida heartbroken.

Armida grieves at this loss and raises an army to kill Rinaldo and fight the Christians, but her champions are all defeated.

Rinaldo then begs her to convert to Christianity, and Armida, her heart softened, gives her consent.

* Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani ( Brescia, 1697 ) music lost

* Das eroberte Jerusalem, oder Armida und Rinaldo by Georg Caspar Schurmann ( Brunswick, 1722 )

* Gian Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo leaves Armida, Villa Valmarana, Vicenza

The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud ( Rinaldo ) inspired many operas, which are listed under the names of their respective composers in the article Armida.

Highlights of the European art exhibit include Sir Anthony van Dyck's Rinaldo and Armida ( 1629 ) which was commissioned by King Charles I of England.

Rinaldo and Armida Watched by two Soldiers, c. 1750-55

His most successful operas in Russia were Armida e Rinaldo and The Early Reign of Oleg ( Nachal ' noye upravleniye Olega ), for the latter of which the empress herself wrote the libretto.

Rossini, for instance, had recourse to a baritenor as a lover in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, at a time when his company included two major singers of that type, and also for Torvaldo e Dorliska and Armida, where, beside the amatory protagonist, Rinaldo, created by the very prince of Rossini baritenors, Andrea Nozzari, there appear additionally five or six baritonal tenors in secondary roles.

The story of Armida, a Saracen sorceress and Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, was created by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso.

* Rinaldo and Armida ( 1698 ) by John Dennis ( dramatist )