Salvator Rosa (1615-1673),

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" and a proto-Romantic. Some sources claim he spent time living with roving bandits. Salvator Rosa, after struggles of his early youth, had successfully earned a handsome fortune. He was a significant etcher, with a highly popular and influential series of small prints of soldiers, and a number of larger and very ambitious subjects. Among his pupils were Evangelista Martinotti of Monferrato and his brother Francesco. Another pupil was Ascanio della Penna of Perugia. The displayed painting is a crop from Self-Portrait, 1647.

Salvator Rosa, Self-Portrait, 1647

Original, MET-NY Visited in 2017-20.

Salvator Rosa, Self-Portrait, 1647

Salvator Rosa, Philosophy, about 1645

Original, The National Gallery - London. Visited in 2018-19.

Salvator Rosa, Philosophy, about 1645

Heraclitus and Democritus (1645-49)

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. VIsited in 2017-19.

Heraclitus and Democritus (1645-49)

St. William of Maleval as penitents (1645)

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. VIsited in 2017-19.

St. William of Maleval as penitents (1645)

Allegory of Fortune, c. (1658-59)

Original, GETTY-LA. Visited in 2018.

Allegory of Fortune, c. (1658-59)

Polycrates and the Fisherman, c. (1664)

Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in 2018-19.

Polycrates and the Fisherman, c. (1664)

Follower of Salvator Rosa - Hunting scene in a landscape

Original, Dorotheum-Vienna. Visited in 2019.

Follower of Salvator Rosa - Hunting scene in a landscape

River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl, c. (1657-58)

Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.

River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl, c. (1657-58)

The Tribute Money

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld (1662)

Original, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth,TX. Visited in 2020.

Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld (1662)

Vanitas Still Life, ca. (1650)

Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.

Vanitas Still Life, ca. (1650)

The Return of Astraea, c. (1640-45)

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited 2017-19.

The Return of Astraea, c. (1640-45)

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft, c. 1645/1649

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft Morning, c. 1645/1649

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft Day, c. 1645/1649

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft Eevning, c. 1645/1649

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft Night, c. 1645/1649

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of Witchcraft, c. 1645/1649