Salvator Rosa 1615 – 1673

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Salvator Rosa (June 20 or July 21, 1615 – March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as "unorthodox and extravagant" as well as being a "perpetual rebel"^[1] and a proto-Romantic.

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• 1Early life
• 2Life
• 3Legacy
  • 3.1Satires
• 4Works
• 5Works around Rosa
• 6References
• 7External links
  

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British Museum

Italian artist Salvator Rosa was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1615. He worked in Naples, Florence and Rome and achieved great success with his landscape paintings of wild and mountainous scenery with travellers and bandits. His one hundred or so etchings, which have always been admired for their inventive figure groupings, reflect his desire to be known as more than a landscape painter.

In this etching based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Rosa depicts the hero Jason pouring the magic potion given to him by Medea over the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece. Overcome with drowsiness, the creature rolls onto its side, enabling Jason to carry off both his treasure and Medea as his bride. This etching of Jason stepping over the dragon bursts with violent energy. http://ow.ly/jamn301if5Z