Salvator Rosa
... popular comic actor. In the Carnival of 1639 he criticized the famous architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini therefore making a strong enemy. For some years after, the environment of Florence was more comfortable for him than of Rome. Rosa’s own house became the center of a literary, musical, and artistic circle called the Accademia dei Percossi, here also Rosa’s extravagant personality found expression in acting. In 1649 he returned and finally settled in Rome. He who regarded his landscapes more as recreation than as serious art now turned largely to religious and historical painting. In 1660 he began etching and completed a number of successful prints. His satires were published in 1710. Rosa Salvator was an Italian painter from the Medieval Ages, and an etcher that was remembered for his wildly romantic or “sublime” landscapes, marine paintings and battle pictures. He also was a poet, actor, musician and looked up to the painter and engraver José de Ribera. Rosa was born in Naples, Italy. He went to Rome in 1635 to study but soon had malaria. He then returned to Naples where he painted a number of battle and marine pictures and developed his unusual style of landscape that he drew which was wild scenes of nature with shepherds, seamen, soldiers or bandits. His reputation as a painter came after his return to Rome in 1639, already known as a famous artist he also became known as a ...