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Rose, Salvator

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20.06.1615 – 15.03.1673

Salvator Rosa is an Italian painter, engraver, poet and musician. Born in Renella, near Naples. The boy’s childhood was spent in the monastery, where he was trained for the adoption of spiritual dignity, but Salvator always felt an irresistible attraction to art, so he studied music and painting.

Rose began to study art from his brother-in-law – Fr. Francanzone, after his mentor became a student of Jusepa de Ribera, and then himself Ribera. Salvator Rosa also took over the mastery of the battle painter Anyello Falcone.

In addition to the lessons with the masters, Salvator devoted a lot of time to independent painting, developing his talent by writing sketches from life without any help.

When the artist was eighteen years old, he began to travel around Apulia and Calabria, where he fell into the hands of local robbers and lived for some time among them, studying the types and customs of those places.

In 1634, the painter moved to Rome, where he gained fame, thanks to his works, which have their own unique character. They depict real scenes of the life and life of shepherds, soldiers and bandits, however some satires turned the Roman society to such a degree against the master that he had to retire to Naples.

In 1647, the revolution of Mazaniello broke out in Naples. The painter was directly involved in it.

From 1650 to 1660, the artist worked in Florence at the court of the Grand Duke J.-C. Medici, at times visiting Rome.

In the last years of her life, Rose worked diligently on engraving. In total, they performed 86 etchings of their own composition, many of which can be counted among the best works of the artist and are appreciated by good printmakers in good impressions.

The Italian painter belonged in the direction of talent to the naturalists of the Neapolitan school of painting, having some affinity with his teachers – Ribera and Falcone. Nevertheless, Rosa put a lot of originality into the interpretation of the subjects of her work, despite their diversity. In paintings on historical themes, he was able to combine realistic images with the nobility of a lively composition and with a strong expression of the idea.

The portraits of Roza are very characteristic and expressive, which makes one assume that they are similar to the people who posed for him. Also this master is an excellent, completely original landscape painter, imbued with poetry, when depicting harsh mountains, wild gorges, deaf forest thickets, especially when he writes on canvases of small size. There are many of his paintings, in which the landscape plays a secondary role, and the main content is made up of human figures – for the most part these are soldiers and robbers. Salvator Rosa also beautifully painted very complex pictures of battles.

Salvator Rosa died in 1673 in Rome.

Salvator Rosa
Landscape with two figures
Collection Vokhm them. I.N. Kramskoy