Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata)

Designed by Domenico Paradisi Italian
 Woven at the San Michele
Workshop director Pietro Ferloni Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 550

Commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a great-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII, this was part of a massive series, heroic in scale as well as narrative, of fifteen tapestries depicting the romanticized version of the Christians’ First Crusade into Jerusalem recounted in Tasso’s sixteenth-century epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).
In a gentle illusionistic interplay of spatial projection and recession, double-headed eagles (alluding to the Ottoboni arms), settle on the imposing sculptural surround to a landscape scene in which the Turkish princess, Erminia, fleeing from Christian soldiers, seeks shelter with a shepherd and his family.

Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome

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Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome
Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome
Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome
Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome
Erminia and the Shepherd (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), Designed by Domenico Paradisi (Italian, active 1689–1721), Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7 per cm.), Italian, Rome

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