Study for Polycrates’ Crucifixion
Salvator Rosa
c. 1662
Medium
Pen and brown iron gall ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
13.2 × 6.7 cm (5 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
190739
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...