New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Salvator Rosa

140 works

Featured

Four men gamble over a cloth at night while a helmeted soldier in armour stands watching at right.

Soldiers Gambling

1656

Dark rocky landscape with a natural arch, small figures in the foreground, and distant mountains seen through the opening.

Landscape with an "Arco Naturale"

1630

Painting of a chaotic cavalry battle with armoured soldiers and horses, fallen men, a rocky cliff, and classical ruins under

A Cavalry Battle

1645

Bearded hermit in fur clothing sits on a rock under a tree, hands clasped, with a stormy mountain landscape behind him.

Saint Humphrey (Onuphrius)

1660

Painting of a kneeling robed saint with arms raised beneath a shaft of light through clouds, with trees and mountains behind.

St. Francis in Ecstasy

Portrait of a man in a black hat and dark cloak beside a tablet with Latin text, against a cloudy sky.

Philosophy

1645

Painting of robed figures reacting as a man emerges from broken stones beside tall pines under a stormy sky.

Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld

1662

Dark painting of witches gathered at a fire with torches, beneath a looming skeletal winged creature at night.

The Witches' Sabbath

Dark rocky gorge with armored soldiers and robed figures at a river, one helmeted warrior pointing, under a bright cloud.

Scene from Greek history: Thales causing the river to flow on both sides of the Lydian army

1663

Painting of a bearded elderly man with a staff in a dark forest, watching a kneeling figure who bends near the ground.

Diogenes Casting Away His Cup

Painting of a mountainous landscape with rocky cliffs, a winding river valley, small figures in the foreground, and golden cl

Mountainous Landscape

1650

Painting of a crowned man seized by soldiers in a rocky landscape, with a spear-bearing warrior in a blue cloak raising his h

Scene from Greek history: The deaf-mute son of King Croesus prevents the Persians from killing his father

1663

Old dishevelled man reading a book of symbols by candlelight on a rock, with a dark cliff behind him.

A Witch

1646

Oval painting of armed men resting on a rocky ledge beneath a steep cliff and trees, with a cloudy sky above.

Landscape with Armed Men

1640

Etching of a sleeping man on rocks beneath a ladder of angels, with windblown trees and a rugged landscape.

Jacob finds rest in a rugged landscape and dreams of a ladder of angels. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa

Etching of the philosopher Democritus seated among skulls and bones beneath a large tree with an owl, with ruins nearby.

Democritus. Etching by S. Rosa

Etching of many muscular figures tumbling down rocky slopes under a cloudy sky, arms flung outward in terror.

The Fall of the Giants

1663

Pen and wash drawing of a winding road with two figures, a large tree, rocks and distant hills under a pale sky.

Figures on a Winding Road

mid-1600s

Pen and wash sketch of winged putti riding a horse-like creature, with grotesque heads and a red chalk face at right.

Sheet of Satirical Studies (Amorini Riding Phalli)

c. 1650s

Pen and wash drawing of a craggy rocky landscape with trees and a pool of water at its base.

Figures by a Rocky Pool

1660/1673

Figure Studies

c. 1640-49

Figure Studies (recto)

c. 1640-49

Etching of allegorical figures in a landscape with cypress trees, a classical structure, and a reclining laureled man.

The Genius of Salvator Rosa

1662

Black chalk drawing of a bowed armored warrior beneath a bearded old man pointing into a stormy sky.

The Dream of Aeneas

about 1663

Etching of a large twisted tree with a helmeted armored figure lying at its base on rocky ground.

St. William the Hermit

c. 1662

Etching of Diogenes and a group of men beside tall trees, with a youth crouching in the foreground near a cup.

Diogenes and His Cup

1662

Etching of Glaucus seated on a sea creature reaching toward a draped woman, with clouds and a rocky shore behind them.

Glaucus and Scylla

1661

Etching of a painter in a studio pointing at a canvas as armored soldiers and boys look on, with a Latin caption below.

Alexander in the Studio of Apelles

1662

Etching of a long-haired man holding a tablet with a small figure, beside an etching of an armored soldier with a spear.

(Figurine Series) Long-Haired Man Holding Sign

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowd around a central figure raising his arm, with a wrapped body below, by Salvator Rosa.

Raising of Lazarus

early 1660s

Brown ink drawing with white highlights of a man beside a large tree in a wooded landscape, rocky ground and shrubs.

The Abandoned Oidipus

Pen and ink sketch of a seated man seen from behind beside a half-length figure with tilted head.

Two figures: on the left a seated man seen from the rear, on the right a half-length figure

1660