EditorialCauldron of the Sorceress. Odilon Redon; French, 1840-1916. Date: 1879. Dimensions: 408 ? 371 mm. Various charcoals, with stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone. Origin: France.
EditorialTorquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1580. The Saracen sorceress Armida, sent by the king of Damascus, take some Christian knights as prisoners. Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, frees some of ...