Cleveland Museum of Art
Ruins in a Rocky Landscape
Salvator RosaLinkedCulture matchlcp-31853ba897b4
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Italy, 17th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 135483
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In 1635, Rosa left his native Naples for Rome, the undisputed art center of the 17th century, where a new type of landscape painting was emerging, distinguished by the effects of light and atmosphere. Rosa’s fame grew quickly as a painter of landscapes that conjured the beauty and fertility of the Bay of Naples. Ruins in a Rocky Landscape incorporates classical ruins, iridescent reflections of light, and a pastoral tone evoked by the idling shepherds, exemplifying the work that earned Rosa his early fame. The dark, dramatic rocks that rise along the left foreshadow the wildness that Rosa would cultivate in his later sublime landscapes.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
- Provenance
- Duke Francesco I d’Este, Modena; Duke Francesco V d’Este, Modena and Vienna: | Duke Francis Ferdinand, Vienna; | Maximillian, Duke of Hohenberg, Palace of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna; | Rosenberg & Stiebel (New York, New York), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
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