Salvator Rosa. Country of towers. ITALY. 1842.
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Print from steel engraving titled „Paese delle torri“.Artist Salvator Rosa.Drawn by Luigi Corsi.Engraved by Luigi Paradisi.From “Galerie du Palais Pitti“, Chez Louis Bardi, Florence, 1842.Notes: Vol. I. Tav. 81.Salvator Rosa (1615 – March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic. Rosa's most lasting influence was on the later development of romantic and picturesque traditions within painting. As Wittkower states, it is in his landscapes, not his grand historical or religious dramas, that Rosa truly expresses his innovative abilities most graphically. Rosa himself may have dismissed them as frivolous capricci in comparison to his other themes, but these academically conventional canvases often restrained his rebellious streak. In general, in landscapes he avoided the idyllic and pastoral calm countrysides of Claude Lorrain and Paul Brill, and created brooding, melancholic fantasies, awash in ruins and brigands.Approx. image size 27, 6 x 21, 5/47, 3 x 31, 1 cm.
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Salvator Rosa. Country of towers. ITALY. 1842.
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