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ROSA, Salvator

Oil Painting ID: 08959

Democritus in Meditation af

c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 344 x 214 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen


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ROSA, Salvator Democritus in Meditation af

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ROSA, Salvator:
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1615-1673 Italian painter, draughtsman, etcher, poet and actor. He was one of the most original artists and extravagant personalities of the 17th century. His most popular and influential works were his landscapes, the wild and mountainous beauty of which contrasted with the pastoral scenes of Claude Lorrain. Yet Rosa also painted macabre subjects, erudite philosophical allegories and grand historical themes; he was, moreover, the most significant satirical poet of the Italian 17th century, and there is a close relationship between his poetry and painting. His earliest biographers, Filippo Baldinucci and Giovanni Battista Passeri, both of whom knew him well, described at length his fiery temperament

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