In the year of 1575, the Italian literate Torquato Tasso publishes the baroque epic poem Jerusalem Delivered. Rich epic content, whose storyline includes religious, political, romantic and fictional elements, has a profound influence on painting and becomes the source of inspiration to many artists. The main reason of its popularity is based on the main plot of the work - the fight between Christians and Muslims which becomes topical again at the time of the Catholic Restoration and the Council of Trent (1545-1563). Under the brush of the famous artists like Tintoretto, Preti, Carracci, Tiepolo, Poussin, narrative visual representations of rich interpretative content are created. In this thesis, the eleven epic's themes that served artists as literary templates for works that originated during the 15th, 17th, 18th and 19th century are singled out. Most of the works that are frequently shown in this thesis are created in the Baroque era, in the 16th century. Thanks to the multitude of works of art, it is possible both to observe how the same topic is represented in different ways and to track style changes during the centuries. The interpretation of Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered is an exquisite example of the correlation of literature and painting and its entanglement.