Study for Polycrates’ Crucifixion
Salvator Rosa
c. 1662
Medium
Pen and brown iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
17.7 × 14.1 cm (7 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
190740
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...