About this artwork
A bizarre and brilliant artist, Salvator Rosa was also known as an eccentric and extraordinary personality in the Baroque era, a persona embodied in The Genius of Salvator Rosa. The inscription reads “Sincere, free, fiery painter and equable, despiser of wealth and death, this is my genius, Salvator Rosa,” while the trumpeting cherub and prominent figure of Fame especially underscore his ambitions as a painter of profound allegories and histories. Finally, the crumpled music pages and grass growing over a sculpture reveal his admission that there is a possibility of failure.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Salvator Rosa
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Title
- The Genius of Salvator Rosa
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1657–1667
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Medium
- Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 46 × 27.5 cm (18 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 58 × 43.6 cm (22 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Anselmo Carini Memorial Fund
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Reference Number
- 2002.463
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/159864/manifest.json
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