Salvator Rosa, 1659 - Allegory of Fortune - fine art print

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Allegory of Fortune is an artwork by the painter Salvator Rosa in 1659. The original had the size - 200,7 × 133 cm (79 × 52 3/8 in) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. What is more, this artpiece can be viewed in in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital collection, which is part of the J. Paul Getty trust and is one of the world's largest arts organizations worldwide. It seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance.. The classic art public domain piece of art is included with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Creditline of the artwork: . What is more, the alignment is in portrait format and has a ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The actor, poet, musician, painter, printmaker Salvator Rosa was a European artist, whose artistic style was primarily Baroque. The Italian artist was born in 1615 in Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy and passed away at the age of 58 in 1673 in Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy.

Original artwork description from the museum (© Copyright - The J. Paul Getty Museum - The J. Paul Getty Museum)

A personification of Fortune bestows symbols of wealth, status, and power on dumb animals who neither need nor deserve them. Fortune is usually represented with a blindfold, but Salvator Rosa showed her fully aware of her favors. Similarly, the cornucopia is usually shown facing upward; by depicting it overturned, Rosa expressed reckless extravagance.

The beasts, portrayed with stark realism, trample the attributes of art and learning, including books and a palette. Draped in the cardinal red of the Catholic Church, an ass shields an owl, the symbol for wisdom, from the light. Bitter over his exclusion from papal patronage, Rosa included personal references: a book bearing his monogram and a pig stepping on a rose, which alludes to his name.

As a satire of Pope Alexander VII's nepotistic artistic patronage, this painting nearly sent Rosa to prison. After showing it privately in his studio, he flagrantly disregarded all advice and exhibited it publicly in the Pantheon in 1659. Allegory of Fortunearoused such a furor that only intervention by the pope's brother saved him.

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• The canvas print: The UV printed canvas applied on a wooden stretcher frame. A canvas creates a special impression of three dimensionality. The advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight. That means, it is quite simple to hang the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Hence, a canvas print is suited for any type of wall.
• Aluminium dibond print: Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an outstanding depth - for a modern impression and a non-reflective surface structure. For your Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the selected artpiece on the aluminium composite surface. The UV print on Aluminum Dibond is one of the most demanded entry-level products and is an extremely modern way to showcase artworks, since it draws focus on the replica of the artwork.
• The poster print (canvas material): The Artprinta poster print is a UV printed cotton canvas paper with a slightly roughened structure on the surface. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin between 2-6cm around the artwork in order to facilitate the framing.
• The glossy acrylic glass print (with real glass coating on top): A glossy acrylic glass print, which is sometimes labelled as a UV print on plexiglass, makes the original work of art into magnificient décor. Your favorite work of art will be made with state-of-the-art UV print technology. It makes sharp and vivid print colors. Our acrylic glass protects your custom fine art print against light and heat for between four and 6 decades.

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