Title

Erminia and the Shepherd, 1619-20. The scene is taken from Torquato Tasso's epic poem, La Gerusalemme Liberata published in 1575. Erminia, a pagan princess in love with the crusader, Tancred, disguises herself in armour to follow him. She is chased from the Christian camp and flees to Arcadia where she meets an old shepherd weaving baskets. The reversal of gender roles was a popular theme amongst the playwrights of the period.

Caption

Erminia and the Shepherd, 1619-20. Creator: Guercino.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A28_015

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

59.2Mo (2.9Mo) / 42.0cm x 35.3cm / 4960 x 4170 (300dpi)

Keywords

agriculture female women woman people male job man men farming arts painting art guy occupation basket museum color knives armour war century gallery gesturing profession shepherd literature concept knife hand gesture heroine warfare 17th century art gallery oil Painting Colour elderly man suit of armour poem poetry basketry seventeenth century basket-maker Gerusalemme liberata Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery old man old men Torquato Tasso Tasso Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Il Guercino Giovanni Guercino Old Master Barbieri Giovanni Francesco Jerusalem Delivered art centre Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Birmingham Museums Trust Guercino Il Heritage Art Torquato The Liberation of Jerusalem