Salvator Rosa: 5 works

'"Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) worked in Rome at the same time as Poussin and Claude but rejected the ideal beauty which they, in their different ways, both pursued.'

'Salvator Rosa studied as a youth under the Neapolitan artist Aniello Falcone (c1600--1656), a painter whose oeuvre included a number of battle scenes.'

'Fortune is usually represented with a blindfold, but Salvator Rosa showed her fully aware of her favors.'

'Compared to other known chalk works by Salvator Rosa, this drawing is unsually large and complete.'

'Salvator Rosa's style of drawing in the late 1660s was dynamic and spontaneous, as is evident in Studies for the Death of Empedocles. Motifs from the literature Rosa belonged to the Neapolitan school and was active in his home town of Naples as well as in Rome and Florence.'