1844-1930 Related Paintings of llya Yefimovich Repin :. | Zaporozhian Cossacks | In the Sun | Barge Haulers on the Volga | Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom | Portrait of painter Nikolai Nikolayevich Ghe | Related Artists:
ROSA, SalvatorItalian Baroque Era Painter, 1615-1673
Italian painter, draughtsman, etcher, poet and actor. He was one of the most original artists and extravagant personalities of the 17th century. His most popular and influential works were his landscapes, the wild and mountainous beauty of which contrasted with the pastoral scenes of Claude Lorrain. Yet Rosa also painted macabre subjects, erudite philosophical allegories and grand historical themes; he was, moreover, the most significant satirical poet of the Italian 17th century, and there is a close relationship between his poetry and painting. His earliest biographers, Filippo Baldinucci and Giovanni Battista Passeri, both of whom knew him well, described at length his fiery temperament
Hindu painterRichard Ettinghausen believes this work to have been painted in Agra in about 1625
Pavlosky, VladimirAmerican, 1884-1944