Angelica and Medoro
Giorgio Ghisi
1565–1575
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29.9 × 20.9 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
It is thought that this may be the first depiction of an episode from Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso in which Orlando's madness is precipitated when his beloved, the Princess Angelica of Cathay, falls in love with the page Medoro. The immensely popular poem, first published in 1532, existed in over one hundred Italian editions by the end of that century.
