"He... painted an ambiguous picture entitled La Menzogna or Falsehood, to show what he felt about the need for dissimulation to achieve success." (Jonathan Scott on Rosa)
🎨 #SalvatorRosa, Italian painter, poet, musician, and actor, #DOTD 15 March 1673. #Art #Poetry #Painting
A male witch with long hair and a beard is sitting on a rock, looking into a large book. A circle of candles are placed around his feet. He is standing on a piece of paper.
Salvator Rosa, The Witch, c. 1646, Musei Capitolini
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Salvator Rosa, 1655. “The Temptation of Saint Anthony.” (Tempted by what exactly?!)
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🎨 #SalvatorRosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician, and actor, was #BOTD 20 June 1615. #Art #Painting
Witches at their Incantations, c. 1646
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From the National Gallery's description of this painting - Beneath a pitch-dark sky, bizarre and terrifying magical spells are being cast. Monstrous figures, some of them naked, are arranged as if on a stage set, illuminated by scattered pools of light. In the centre, one witch smokes the corpse of a criminal that hangs from a withered tree while her companion cuts its toenails. In front of them, naked witches use a wax effigy to cast a love spell; another, surrounded by a catalogue of magical aids, stirs a cauldron. On the extreme left, two men exhume a corpse and force it to sign a document while away to the right, a swaddled infant is held above the gaping jaws of a monster. This macabre scene evokes a witches' sabbath, a gathering where the devil was worshipped. Salvator Rosa developed an interest in the supernatural while working in Florence in the 1640s and probably painted this remarkable picture around 1646.
Salvator Rosa - Witches at their Incantations (1646)
I have spent 16 years trying to remember this piece of art I saw at the National Gallery in London, and today I finally happened upon it.
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"He... painted an ambiguous picture entitled La Menzogna or Falsehood, to show what he felt about the need for dissimulation to achieve success." (Jonathan Scott on Rosa)
🎨 #SalvatorRosa, Italian painter, poet, musician, and actor, #DOTD 15 March 1673. #Art #Poetry #Painting
Sketch detail version of Salvator Rosa´s "Glaucus and Scylla", c. 1661
Sketch detail version of Salvator Rosa´s "Glaucus and Scylla", c. 1661
Sketch detail version of Salvator Rosa´s "Glaucus and Scylla", c. 1661
“Glaucus and Scylla”
Rosa (Salvator Rosa), c. 1661
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
10 x 8.25 in (25,5 x 21,5 cm)
Ink marker and color pens on plain 70 G/M² sketchbook paper
05/24/24
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Salvator Rosa, June 20, 1615, Naples, Italy
image : Skull, oil on canvas, c1640 – 1645
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