Dulwich Picture Gallery launches the first major exhibition on salvator Rosa in this country since 1973. The exhibition reunites almost fourty of the most famous and beautiful works by the painter providing a unique opportunity to admire Rosa's macabre and enigmatic subjects, his philosophical and scientific concerns, ...and to marvel at his haunting and melancholy poetry. Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of he boldest and most powerful inventive artists and personalities of the Italian 17th century. He invented new types of paiting: allegorical pictures, fanciful portraits of romantic figures, macabre and horrific subjects and philosophical themes. No other artist has created windswept lanscapes of such expressive and emocional power, or figures of such dark and broody intencity. Rosa invented an emphasis on freedom and sincerity. He aimed to intrigue powerful patrons by his mysterious and independent personality. Unlike Caravaggio, roasa was truly a rebel, radical, anti-clerical, associated with libertine thought, and often in very real danger from the Inquisition.REDISCOVERING OLD MASTERS: THE MELOSI SERIES
15 September 2010 - 28 November 2010
Salvator Rosa Credit Line:Salvator Rosa, (1615 - 1673), Jason Charming the Dragon, About 1665-1670. Oil on canvas, 78 x 66.5 cm, coll., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD, London
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