Title: Salvator Rosa /
Authors: Langdon, Helen; Salomon, Xavier F., 1979-; Volpi, Caterina.; Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673; Dulwich Picture Gallery; Kimbell Art Museum.
Publisher: Dulwich Picture Gallery ; Kimbell Art Museum ; In association with Paul Holberton,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Rosa, Salvatore, Exhibitions.
Abstract: Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists and personalities of the Italian seventeenth century. He is still best known as `savage Rosa', the creator of wild landscapes, where bandits and hermits lurk amongst shattered trees and rocks. But his range was wide, and he also painted novel allegorical pictures, distinguished by a melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic figures; macabre witchcraft scenes, which remain amongst the most bizarre images in all seventeenth-century art; rare scenes from ancient history and from the lives of the ancient philosophers, which brought into painting some of the major ethical and scientific concerns of his age.
Contents: The art and life of Salvator Rosa / Helen Langdon -- The great theatre of the world : Salvator Rosa and the academies / Caterina Volpi -- "Ho fatto spiritar Roma" : Salvator Rosa and seventeenth-century exhibitions / Xavier F. Salomon.