All the oil paintings of ROSA, Salvator

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
8960		A Friar Tempted by Demons dy	1660-65 Oil on canvas 65 x 83 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
8959		Democritus in Meditation af	c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 344 x 214 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
8962		Harbour with Ruins af	1640-43 Oil on canvas, 87,5 x 111 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
8961		Human Fragility set	Oil on canvas, 199 x 134 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
8963		Odysseus and Nausicaa st	Oil on canvas, 194,5 x 144 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
8958		Portrait of a Man d	Oil on canvas, 78 x 64,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
8964		Portrait of the Artist's Wife Lucrezia af	1657-60 Oil on canvas, 66 x 50,5 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
8966		River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl gq	c. 1655 Oil on canvas, 174 x 259 cm Wallace Collection, London
8967		Self-Portrait af	Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
8968		Self-portrait dh52	c. 1641 Oil on canvas, 116 x 94 cm National Gallery, London
8965		The Prodigal Son dg	1640s Oil on canvas, 253,5 x 201 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
8969		View of the Gulf of Salerno	1640-45 Oil on canvas, 170 x 260 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
8971		Warrior af	Oil on canvas Galleria Chigi Saracini, Siena

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