The crucifixion of Polycrates the tyrant after his capture by the Persians
Salvator Rosa
ca. 1662
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 22 1/2 x 30 3/8 in. (57.1 x 77.1 cm) plate: 18 5/8 x 28 7/16 in. (47.3 x 72.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.921
Tags
MenWomenCrucifixion
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...