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| Salvator Rosa Scenes of Witchcraft - Morning ca. 1645-49 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Salvator Rosa Scenes of Witchcraft - Day ca. 1645-49 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Salvator Rosa Temptation of St Anthony ca. 1645-49 oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Salvator Rosa St George and the Dragon before 1673 oil on canvas Collezione Gianfranco Luzzetti, Florence |
La Pittura
Arte alcuna non v'è che porti seco
Delle scienze maggior necessità
Che de color non può trattare il cieco
Che tutto quel, che la natura fa,
O sia soggetto al senso, o intellegibile
Per oggetto al pittor propone, e da.
Che non dipinge sol quel, ch'è visibile,
Ma necessario è che talvolta additi
Tutto quel ch'è incorporeo, e ch'è possibile.
Bisogna che i pittor siano eruditi,
Nelle scienze introdotti e sappian bene
Le favole, l'istorie, i tempi e i riti.
There is no art that does not bring with it a greater necessity for the sciences, since a blind man cannot talk of colours: everything that nature does, whether in the realm of the senses or of the mind, is offered, and given, as an object for painting. Art does not depict only what is visible but necessarily sometimes alludes to everything that is incorporeal and possible. Painters have to be learned, initiated into the sciences and well versed in mythology, history, churches and religions.
– Salvator Rosa
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| Salvator Rosa Philosophy ca. 1645 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Salvator Rosa Astraea leaving the Earth ca. 1665 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Salvator Rosa Astraea returning to Earth ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Salvator Rosa Dream of Aeneas ca. 1664-65 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Salvator Rosa St Sebastian before 1673 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
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| Salvator Rosa Christ expelling the Money-Changers ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Salvator Rosa Finding of Moses ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum (Ohio) |
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| Salvator Rosa St William of Maleval as Penitent ca. 1645 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Salvator Rosa St Onophrius ca. 1660 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Salvator Rosa Self-Portrait ca. 1647 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Salvator Rosa Self-Portrait ca. 1650 oil on canvas private collection |