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NICOLÒ DELL'ABATE (MODENA C. 1509/12-FONTAINEBLEAU 1571)

A scene from Orlando innamorato: Brandimarte in the enchanted palace

c.1545

RCIN 906317

Before moving to the French court, Abate specialised in decorative schemes on pastoral, courtly and literary themes. This drawing illustrates a passage from Matteo Maria Boiardo’s verse-romance Orlando innamorato. On entering a palace, the hero Brandimarte was challenged to open a tomb and to kiss whatever emerged. Out of the tomb came a dragon, but when Brandimarte plucked up the courage to kiss the dragon it turned into a fairy. No. 44

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