Two warriors, one seated on a low foreground rock and holding a war hammer; the other figure seated on the ground behind him, holding a mace across his right shoulder and looking up at the foreground fugure, from Figurine series

Two warriors, one seated on a low foreground rock and holding a war hammer; the other figure seated on the ground behind him, holding a mace across his right shoulder and looking up at the foreground fugure, from Figurine series by Salvator Rosa

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Clipped within platemark: 14 × 9.3 cm (5 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

80557

About the Artist

Salvator Rosa · 16151673

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...

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