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"Rinaldo and Armida", c. 1637
by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) - Dulwitch Picture Gallery, Dulwitch, England.

Note: Illustration of the 1581 epic poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" by Torquato Tasso.
As Armida, a Saracen heroin is about to murder Rinaldo, she is overwhelmed by love, personified
here as Cupid disarming her arm.

Poussin painted another version of this theme which is now found in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. 

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