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Salvator Rosa - Landscape with Armed Men

Landscape with Armed Men (circa 1640)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
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Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. As a painter, he has been described as "unorthodox and extravagant" as well as being a "perpetual rebel" and a proto-Romantic.

Rosa was born in Arenella, at that time in the outskirts of Naples, on either June 20 or July 21, 1615. His mother was Giulia Greca Rosa, a member of one of the Greek families of Sicily. His father, Vito Antonio de Rosa, a land surveyor, urged his son to become a lawyer or a priest, and entered him into the convent of the Somaschi Fathers. Yet Salvator showed a preference for the arts and secretly worked with his maternal uncle Paolo Greco to learn about painting. He soon transferred himself to the tutelage of his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, a pupil of Ribera, and afterward to either Aniello Falcone, a contemporary of Domenico Gargiulo, or to Ribera.

During Rosa's lifetime his work inspired followers such as Giovanni Ghisolfi, but his most lasting influence was on the later development of romantic and picturesque traditions within painting. Eighteenth-century artists influenced by Rosa include Alessandro Magnasco, Andrea Locatelli, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Marco Ricci. As Wittkower states, it is in his landscapes, not his grand historical or religious dramas, that Rosa truly expresses his innovative abilities most graphically.

Rosa's reputation and influence waned in the nineteenth century; when his Monks Fishing was displayed in Dulwich in 1843 it was criticized by John Ruskin as telling "unmitigated falsehoods" and containing "laws of nature set at open defiance". Since the 1960s, Rosa's work has received renewed attention from scholars.

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Figure Studies (verso)

Figure Studies (verso) (c. 1640-1649)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld

Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld (1662)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Two Soldiers, One Seen From Behind, Holding a Club

Two Soldiers, One Seen From Behind, Holding a Club (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Scene from Greek history; The deaf-mute son of King Croesus prevents the Persians from killing his father

Scene from Greek history; The deaf-mute son of King Croesus prevents the Persians from killing his father (circa 1663)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Studier til Empedokles’ død

Studier til Empedokles’ død

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Youth Sitting on a Wall in Conversation with Two Men

Youth Sitting on a Wall in Conversation with Two Men (c. 1656-1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Study for ‘Christ Exorcising a Demon’

Study for ‘Christ Exorcising a Demon’ (ca 1660-1665)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Soldier with Cane, Facing Right

Soldier with Cane, Facing Right (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Tobias and the Angel

Tobias and the Angel

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist

The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
A man seen from the rear points to the right

A man seen from the rear points to the right (ca. 1662)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
The Dream of Aeneas

The Dream of Aeneas (1660–65)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Man, Standing, His Arm Pointing Horizontally

Man, Standing, His Arm Pointing Horizontally (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
A man seated against a block on the right

A man seated against a block on the right (1660 – 1669)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Studies of a Man’s Head in Profile, and of a Standing Male Figure

Studies of a Man’s Head in Profile, and of a Standing Male Figure

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
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