Angelica engraves Medoro's name on the bark

Angelica engraved the name of Medoro on the bark is a fresco made by Giambattista Tiepolo, in the Hall of Orlando Furioso of Villa Valmarana “Ai Nani”, in Vicenza. It is part of a series of four paintings on the wall, in which as many episodes related to Angelica, the main female figure of Ludovico Ariosto's poem are represented. In the fresco in question, Angelica treated Medoro's wound, which she has also fallen in love with, thus being reciprocated: this will trigger Orlando's madness. The landscape represented by Tiepolo is spring and serene: it takes up the topos of the locus amoenus.