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Orlando Furioso (or Mad Orlando)

Pic: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Ruggiero, mounted on a hippogriff, rescuing Angelica, 1819.
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Gustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’s 'Orlando Furioso' - Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica.

Gustave made around 40 engravings for this story.

Does anyone have /hr/ pictures of them?
>> Anonymous
>>416254
Not much, resulution-wise, but it's something.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Orlando_Furioso
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>>416270
Thanks. It would take a while to download those individually.
I was wondering if anyone had a full set.
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A Hippogriff (also spelled Hippogryph and Hippogryphe) is a legendary creature, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a mare. Ludovico Ariosto's poem, Orlando furioso (1516) contains an early description (canto IV):

XVIII

No empty fiction wrought by magic lore,
But natural was the steed the wizard pressed;
For him a filly to griffin bore;
Hight hippogryph. In wings and beak and crest,
Formed like his sire, as in the feet before;
But like the mare, his dam, in all the rest.
Such on Riphaean hills, though rarely found,
Are bred, beyond the frozen ocean's bound.

XIX

Drawn by enchantment from his distant lair,
The wizard thought but how to tame the foal;
And, in a month, instructed him to bear
Saddle and bit, and gallop to the goal;
And execute on earth or in mid air,
All shifts of manege, course and caracole;
He with such labour wrought. This only real,
Where all the rest was hollow and ideal.
>> Anonymous
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Who the fuck cares? Post some pics or stop your bullshit, you art-douche