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Based on Torquato Tasso's romantic epic of the first crusade, Gerusalemme Liberta of 1574, the tapestry depicts the Christian Sophronia who was condemned to death at the stake by the Saracen king.
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A LOUIS XII PARIS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven with a scene from the Story of Olindo and Sophronia, with the younge lovers tied at the stake and Clorinda arriving on horseback to rescue them, a group of onlookers gather to watch, within floral spray borders woven with acanthus leaves at the angles-10ft. 5¾in. x 16ft. 5¾in. (3m. 14cm. x 4m. 94cm.)
LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven with a scene from the Story of Olindo and Sophronia, with the younge lovers tied at the stake and Clorinda arriving on horseback to rescue them, a group of onlookers gather to watch, within floral spray borders woven with acanthus leaves at the angles-10ft. 5¾in. x 16ft. 5¾in. (3m. 14cm. x 4m. 94cm.)