page_title: Johann Heinrich Roos
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Heinrich Roos / Works
context_page_description: Johann Heinrich Roos was a German Baroque era landscape painter and etcher.
context_section_description: Roos specialized in pastoral idylls, idealized landscapes with ancient ruins. He found inspiration in engravings. These pastoral scenes represent the longing of Roos for harmony between men and animals with nature. Among biblical, historical and genre scenes, Roos preferred subjects involving animals: the shepherds of the nativity, Venus and Adonis.
  Roos was also one of the finest German portrait painters of his time. He painted princes, noble ladies and officers, but also Frankfurt middle classes.
  Roos worked too from many individual drawings (Albertina, Vienne), mostly of domestic animals. He intensified the individuality of each species.
caption: Italianate landscape
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