Salvator Rosa
Desolate Landscape with Two Figures
About this artwork
Unlike its companion hanging nearby, this painting appears to have no specific subject and the artist’s main intention seems to have been to evoke the awesome grandeur of nature. In 1662, at about the time that this picture was painted, Rosa wrote of his appreciation of the ‘wild beauty’ of the Apennine mountain scenery and his longing for the ‘most solitary hermitages’ he had passed on a recent journey.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673) Italian
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title:Desolate Landscape with Two Figures
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date created:About 1660 - 1665
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:67.30 x 49.90 cm; Framed: 75.50 x 58.00 x 5.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through Art Fund, 2012
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accession number:NG 2853
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Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa
A painter, etcher, satirical poet and musician, Rosa was one of the most original and extravagant artistic personalities in seventeenth-century Italy. He trained in his native city, probably initially with his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, and then with the battle painter Aniello Falcone....
