Salvator Rosa, 1665 - Polycrates and the Fisherman - fine art print

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Salvator Rosa developed a kind of dramatic landscape in which nature is presented as wild, dangerous, and filled with striking effects of light, broken trees, jagged cliffs, and dark grottoes. A native of Naples, Rosa settled in Rome in 1649, producing dramatic works that are regarded as counter-parts to the calm, classical landscapes of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Rosa’s dark style is well suited to the subject of this pair of paintings; they recount an episode from the Greco-Persian Wars as told by the ancient Green historian Herodotus. The ruler of the island of Samos, Polycrates, had been blessed with remarkable good fortune. In an effort to ward off a reversal of fortune, he cast a precious ring into the sea, but it was returned to him, swallowed by a fish. His good fortune came to an end, however, when he was entrapped by Oroetus of Sardis and put to death.

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This 17th century work of art was created by the male artist Salvator Rosa in 1665. The 350 year old version of the masterpiece was painted with the exact dimensions: 28 1/2 × 38 13/16 in (73 × 98,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the European painter as the technique for the masterpiece. The original masterpiece has the following text as inscrption: inscribed at lower right: SR (in ligature). This artpiece can be viewed in in the digital collection of Art Institute Chicago. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The actor, poet, musician, painter, printmaker Salvator Rosa was an artist, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Baroque. The Italian artist was born in the year 1615 in Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy and died at the age of 58 in 1673.

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