Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl
Salvator Rosa
c. 1661
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 33.7 x 21.7 cm (13 1/4 x 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 34.7 x 22.8 cm (13 11/16 x 9 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1995.10.3
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...