Dream of Aeneas, Aeneas rests on his shield, while the river god Tiber points upward

Salvator Rosa

ca. 1663–64

Dream of Aeneas, Aeneas rests on his shield, while the river god Tiber points upward by Salvator Rosa

Medium

Etching with drypoint

Dimensions

Sheet: 14 3/8 × 9 15/16 in. (36.5 × 25.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.302

Tags

ShieldsAeneasSleepingMen

About the Artist

Salvator Rosa · 16151673

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...

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