These two paintings, one the counterpart of the other, represent two unknown battles, but the eastern shape of the clothes of a part of the figures would identify them as facts of arms between Christians and Turks. Tempesta, well known for his activity as an engraver, just starting from 1613 created the series of printed works of the "biblical battles" dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo II together with the sheets of "Gerusalemme liberata" (CHIARINI 1989), subjects that allowed him to have a certain success in the Medici house and in the Florentine court. In fact, it is from the “biblical battles” that one finds the greatest compositional evidence and the reuse of the same scenes (BARTSCH 1983). The commission of these canvases can in fact be framed in an express desire to obtain "two battles" of the Tempest by Cardinal Carlo de 'Medici. These two works then appear to be in the possession of the Grand Duke Ferdinando in the year 1633.