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Salvator Rosa - The Founding of Thebes

The Founding of Thebes (1630 – 1661)

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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Studies for Standing and Seated Figures

Studies for Standing and Seated Figures (1634–1645)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Scene from Greek history; Thales causing the river to flow on both sides of the Lydian army

Scene from Greek history; Thales causing the river to flow on both sides of the Lydian army (circa 1663)

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

Tobias and the Angel

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Scenes of Witchcraft, Night

Scenes of Witchcraft, Night (c. 1645-1649)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Turbaned Warrior Holding a Mace

Turbaned Warrior Holding a Mace (1615–73)

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

Studier til Empedokles’ død

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Two figures; on the left a seated man seen from the rear, on the right a half-length figure

Two figures; on the left a seated man seen from the rear, on the right a half-length figure (ca 1660-1669)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Two Soldiers, One Seated on a Ledge, Holding a Cane

Two Soldiers, One Seated on a Ledge, Holding a Cane (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Soldier Holding a Cane with Both Hands, Walking Toward the Left

Soldier Holding a Cane with Both Hands, Walking Toward the Left (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Soldier Holding a Long Sword with Both Hands

Soldier Holding a Long Sword with Both Hands (1656 - 1657)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
A Mediterranean coastal landscape with a ship

A Mediterranean coastal landscape with a ship

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Figure Studies

Figure Studies (c. 1640-1649)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Figures by a Rocky Pool 1660-1673

Figures by a Rocky Pool 1660-1673

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
St. Paul, Hermit

St. Paul, Hermit (1615–73)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
Witches’ Sabbath

Witches’ Sabbath (1640–1649)

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)
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