The Nurturing of Jupiter
n.d.
Medium
Brush and brown and gray (possibly discolored) washes and pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper; laid down on tan paper; ruled along edges in yellow metallic paint
Dimensions
30.2 × 20.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
brush and wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222184
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...