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Saturday, June 21, 2014

GREGORIO LAZZARINI, "ANGELICA E MEDORO" -- Villa Zenobio

Speranza

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The two lovers, taken from from Ariosto's ORLANDO FURIOSO, are shown at the moment when ANGLICE is about to carve both their names in the bark of a tree. An acdt that will lead to ORLANDO's madness.

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The composition is charactderised by a neo-Mannerist cortortion of the bodies.

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