A warrior, seated on a foreground block, holds a shield and staff and turns toward two warriors behind him, from Figurine series
Salvator Rosa
n.d.
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.9 × 9.1 cm (5 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80554
About the Artist
Salvator Rosa · 1615–1673
Salvator Rosa was born in 1615 in Arenella, on the outskirts of Naples, into a world of artistic ambition and turbulent talent. His early training came through his maternal uncle, the painter Paolo Greco, and his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, himself a pupil of the great Spanish-born Neapolitan master Jusepe de Ribera. Rosa showed a fierce independence from the start, resisting his father's...