The Death of Atilius Regulus
Salvator Rosa
c. 1662
Medium
etching with drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 46.4 × 72.9 cm (18 1/4 × 28 11/16 in.) sheet: 53.4 × 75.7 cm (21 × 29 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper
Accession Number
2016.149.1
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...