Glaucus and Scylla
Salvator Rosa
1661
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 35.5 × 23.5 cm (14 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.3 × 24.3 cm (14 5/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
137056
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...