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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of the artist, half-length, in a brown doublet
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Salvator Rosa (1615 – March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque* and Romantic* painter, poet and printmaker*, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic.
He was born in Arenella, in the outskirts of Naples, on either June 20 or July 21, 1615. His father, Vito Antonio de Rosa, a land surveyor, urged his son to become a lawyer or a priest, and entered him into the convent of the So (showing 500 of 9418 characters). |
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