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    What unusual means of transport is depicted by such painters as J.A.D.Ingres, Filippo Napoletano, Stefano della Bella and Eugene Delacroix - but not Arnold Böcklin - in their rendering of a scene from Ariosto's "Roland Enraged" in which an airborne knight rescues an angelic lady from the claws of a sea-monster?

    Question #59032. Asked by Flem-ish. (Aug 26 05 7:55 AM)


    lanfranco

    		I think this is your garden-variety hippogriff:

    http://67.18.136.122/art/detail.php?ID=10032

    Aug 26 05, 8:26 AM
    Flem-ish

    		Hippogryph indeed. In the "Galleria Nazionale delle Marche" at Urbino there is a painting of
    Ruggiero helping Angelica dismount from the hippogryph, which might interest you.

    Aug 26 05, 9:00 AM
    lanfranco

    		I know it. I once wrote about it.

    I've got a nice little Stefano della Bella of my own, but it depicts Perseus and Pegasus with the Medusa.

    Aug 26 05, 9:23 AM

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