Cleveland Museum of Art

Angelica and Medoro

Date

c. 1570

Medium

engraving

Culture

Italy, 16th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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