The Crucifixion of Polycrates
Salvator Rosa
c. 1662
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 47.5 x 72.3 cm (18 11/16 x 28 7/16 in.) sheet: 54.5 x 78 cm (21 7/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1985.21.1
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...